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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Bluestems, Lemon Grasses, Silvergrasses, and Allies
  8. Chrysopogon

genus

Chrysopogon

Chrysopogon

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Vetiver present
  • Wild Oat Grass native
  • Chrysopogon gryllus
  • Reddish-Yellow Beardgrass
  • Chrysopogon pauciflorus native
  • Chrysopogon nodulibarbis

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
Annual Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native Chrysopogon All

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

  • Wild Oat Grass Chrysopogon aciculatus
  • Chrysopogon pauciflorus

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