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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Johnsongrasses, Milos, Sudangrasses, Indiangrasses, and Allies
  8. Indiangrasses

genus

Indiangrasses

Sorghastrum

Traits
Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Indiangrass native
  • Lopsided Indiangrass native
  • Slender Indiangrass native
  • Sandysoil Indiangrass
  • Needle Indiangrass

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 indiangrasses All

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

  • Lopsided Indiangrass Sorghastrum secundum caterpillars 4
  • Indiangrass Sorghastrum nutans caterpillars 2 food 5 flowers 10
  • Slender Indiangrass Sorghastrum elliottii caterpillars 2

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