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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Needlegrasses and Allies
  8. Piptatherum

genus

Piptatherum

Piptatheropsis

Traits
Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Mountain Ricegrass native
  • Little Mountain-ricegrass native
  • Canadian Ricegrass native
  • Little Ricegrass native
  • Checkerberry

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 piptatherum All

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

  • Mountain Ricegrass Piptatheropsis pungens caterpillars 1
  • Little Mountain-ricegrass Piptatheropsis micrantha
  • Little Ricegrass Piptatheropsis exigua
  • Canadian Ricegrass Piptatheropsis canadensis

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