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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Eleusininae
  8. Finger Grass

genus

Finger Grass

Eustachys

Traits
Includes
3 native 1 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Pinewoods Fingergrass native
  • Saltmarsh Finger Grass native
  • Fan Grass
  • Frost-resistant Rhodes Grass
  • Argentine Fingergrass
  • Cape Windmill Grass introduced
  • Fourspike Fingergrass
  • Twospike Fingergrass native

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 finger grass All

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

  • Pinewoods Fingergrass Eustachys petraea food 1
  • Saltmarsh Finger Grass Eustachys glauca
  • Twospike Fingergrass Eustachys floridana

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