genus
Rice Grasses
Sporobolus
Field notes
Children
- Cord-grasses 8 native
- Calamovilfa 7 native
- Clandestini 5 native
- Cryptandri 4 native
- Pyramidati 3 native
- Airoides 2 native
- Dropseed and Cordgrasses 2 native
- Virginicae 1 native
- Fringed Dropseed
- Florida Sandreed native
- Sporobolus osceolensis
- Ascension Hedgehog Grass
- Buckley's Dropseed
- Crypsis
- Sporobolus
- Fimbriatae
Range
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 rice grasses All
Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Marsh Hay Cordgrass
Sporobolus pumilus
caterpillars
9
food
15
flowers
2
shelter
1
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Saltmarsh Cordgrass
Sporobolus alterniflorus
caterpillars
6
food
16
flowers
3
shelter
1
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Prairie Cordgrass
Sporobolus michauxianus
caterpillars
6
food
16
flowers
2
shelter
1
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Big Cordgrass
Sporobolus cynosuroides
caterpillars
5
food
10
flowers
3
shelter
1
-
Sand Cordgrass
Sporobolus bakeri
caterpillars
5
food
4
flowers
1
shelter
1
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Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
caterpillars
4
food
9
flowers
1
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Gulf Cordgrass
Sporobolus spartinae
caterpillars
4
food
7
flowers
1
shelter
1
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Sand Dropseed
Sporobolus cryptandrus
caterpillars
3
food
15
flowers
1
-
Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
caterpillars
3
food
12
flowers
3
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Poverty Dropseed
Sporobolus vaginiflorus
caterpillars
2
food
13
flowers
1
-
Tall Dropseed
Sporobolus compositus
caterpillars
2
food
11
flowers
1
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Seashore Dropseed
Sporobolus virginicus
caterpillars
2
food
9
flowers
2
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Big Sacaton
Sporobolus wrightii
caterpillars
2
food
9
flowers
1
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Whorled Dropseed
Sporobolus pyramidatus
caterpillars
2
food
9
flowers
1
-
Pineywoods Dropseed
Sporobolus junceus
caterpillars
2
food
7
flowers
1