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Of the 18 rice varieties being trialed at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, some are green, some have flowered or display curved golden panicles heavy with grains.

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2023

By summer, the dark green leaves provide a foil for pyramidal panicles of white flowers that gradually age to pink.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2022

The highest performer was a variety named Jeana, a pink bloomer whose panicles are smaller than others, which isn’t a bad thing, though it is tall, reaching five feet.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2018

P. virgatum ‘Cheyenne Sky’ is more petite, growing to about 3 feet tall, with blue-green leaves that turn wine-red in summer, topped by purple flower panicles.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2016

Perennial, erect, slightly downy below, viscid above; leaves narrowly lanceolate; flowers in loose panicles; calyx short, glabrous; petals red, 4-lobed, lobes linear.—Moist or marshy places; New Eng. and N. Y.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa