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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Bluestems, Lemon Grasses, Silvergrasses, and Allies
  8. Anthistiriinae

subtribe

Anthistiriinae

Anthistiriinae

Includes
8 native 11 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Bluestems 6 native
  • Heteropogon 2 native
  • Iseilema
  • Lemon Grasses
  • Bluestem
  • Capillipedium
  • Kangaroo Grass
  • Monocymbium

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Anthistiriinae All

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

  • Cane Bluestem Bothriochloa barbinodis caterpillars 1
  • Tanglehead Heteropogon contortus caterpillars 1
  • Silver Bluestem Bothriochloa torreyana
  • Longspike Beardgrass Bothriochloa longipaniculata
  • Springfield's Beardgrass Bothriochloa springfieldii
  • Sweet Tanglehead Heteropogon melanocarpus
  • Hybrid Beardgrass Bothriochloa hybrida
  • Awnless Beardgrass Bothriochloa exaristata

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