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Top native Eleusininae

19 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

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19 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 2 Part shade 3

Soil and water

Moisture

Dry 2 Moist 2

Water use

Medium 2

Toughness

Deer resistant

Yes 1

Form

Plant type

Ornamental grasses and sedges 18 Perennial 14 Annual 6
  • Nealley's Sprangletop Dinebra nealleyi caterpillars 2
  • Mucronate Sprangletop Dinebra panicea food 2
  • Pinewoods Fingergrass Eustachys petraea food 1
  • Tumble Windmillgrass Chloris verticillata
  • Hooded Windmill Grass Chloris cucullata
  • Green Sprangletop Disakisperma dubium
  • Feather Finger Grass Chloris virgata
  • Sprangletop Diplachne fusca
  • False Rhodes Grass Leptochloa crinita
  • Amazon Sprangle-top Dinebra panicoides
  • Saltmarsh Finger Grass Eustachys glauca
  • Multi-flowered False Rhodesgrass Leptochloa pluriflora
  • Slimspike Windmill Grass Chloris andropogonoides
  • Fringed Windmill Grass Stapfochloa ciliata
  • Sticky Sprangletop Dinebra viscida
  • Texas Windmillgrass Chloris texensis
  • Twospike Fingergrass Eustachys floridana
  • Judd's Grass Leptochloa virgata
  • Stalky Grass Lepturus repens

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