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

genus

Squarestem

Melanthera

Traits
Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Snow Squarestem native
  • Everglades Squarestem native
  • Small-leaf Squarestem native
  • Grassland Nehe native

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native squarestem All

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

  • Snow Squarestem Melanthera nivea caterpillars 3 hosts 1 food 1 flowers 87
  • Small-leaf Squarestem Melanthera parvifolia flowers 8
  • Everglades Squarestem Melanthera angustifolia flowers 4
  • Grassland Nehe Melanthera subcordata

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