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

genus

Purua Grass

Bolboschoenus

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

Field notes

Children

  • Sea Clubrush native
  • River Bulrush native
  • Seacoast Bulrush native
  • Caldwell's Clubrush
  • Flat-stalk Bulrush present
  • Inland Club-rush
  • Tuberous Bulrush native
  • New England Bulrush 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 purua grass All

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

  • River Bulrush Bolboschoenus fluviatilis caterpillars 1 hosts 1 food 3
  • Seacoast Bulrush Bolboschoenus robustus food 6
  • Sea Clubrush Bolboschoenus maritimus food 1 flowers 1
  • New England Bulrush Bolboschoenus novae-angliae
  • Tuberous Bulrush Bolboschoenus glaucus

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