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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Plucheinae
  8. Blackroots

genus

Blackroots

Pterocaulon

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Blackroot native
  • Wand Blackroot native
  • Pterocaulon alopecuroides

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native blackroots All

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

  • Wand Blackroot Pterocaulon virgatum caterpillars 1
  • Blackroot Pterocaulon pycnostachyum food 4 flowers 19

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