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

genus

Deergrasses

Trichophorum

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

Field notes

Children

  • Tufted Bulrush native
  • Cotton Deergrass native
  • Trichophorum subcapitatum present
  • Bashful Bulrush native
  • Clinton's Bulrush native
  • Little Bulrush native
  • Trichophorum clementis 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 deergrasses All

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

  • Tufted Bulrush Trichophorum cespitosum caterpillars 1 food 6
  • Cotton Deergrass Trichophorum alpinum food 4
  • Bashful Bulrush Trichophorum planifolium
  • Clinton's Bulrush Trichophorum clintonii
  • Little Bulrush Trichophorum pumilum
  • Trichophorum clementis

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