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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Needlegrasses and Allies
  8. Needlegrass

genus

Needlegrass

Piptochaetium

Traits
Includes
3 native 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Blackseed Needlegrass native
  • Pinyon Ricegrass native
  • Florida Speargrass native
  • Stipoid Ricegrass
  • Pringle's Speargrass
  • Piptochaetium montevidense
  • Bristly Needle Grass
  • Piptochaetium napostaense
  • Piptochaetium lasianthum

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Grasses and sedges
Plant type
Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native needlegrass All

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

  • Pinyon Ricegrass Piptochaetium fimbriatum food 2
  • Blackseed Needlegrass Piptochaetium avenaceum
  • Florida Speargrass Piptochaetium avenacioides

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