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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. Saccharinae

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Saccharinae

Saccharinae

Includes
5 native 5 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Plumegrasses 5 native
  • Eulalia
  • Java Grass
  • Silvergrasses
  • Sugarcanes and Plumegrasses
  • Japanese Grass
  • Sabaigrass

Range

United States

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

Top native Saccharinae All

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

  • Sugarcane Plumegrass Erianthus giganteus caterpillars 2 food 1
  • Woolly Beardgrass Erianthus alopecuroides
  • Baldwin's Plumegrass Erianthus strictus
  • Bent-awn Plumegrass Erianthus contortus
  • Short-beard Plumegrass Erianthus brevibarbis
  • Compressed Plumegrass Erianthus coarctatus

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