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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Poeae
  8. Holcinae

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Holcinae

Holcinae

Includes
6 native 2 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Hair Grass 5 native
  • Arctic Hairgrass 1 native
  • Soft-Grass

Range

United States

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

Top native Holcinae All

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

  • Tufted Hair Grass Deschampsia cespitosa caterpillars 5 food 17
  • Slender Hairgrass Deschampsia elongata caterpillars 4 food 6
  • Annual Hairgrass Deschampsia danthonioides caterpillars 3 food 6
  • Scribner's Grass Deschampsia bolanderi caterpillars 3 food 5
  • Kalamaloa Deschampsia nubigena
  • Mountain Hairgrass Vahlodea atropurpurea

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