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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Paspalums, Carpetgrasses, Vine Mesquites, and Allies
  8. Carpetgrasses

genus

Carpetgrasses

Axonopus

Traits
Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Broadleaf Carpetgrass native
  • Narrow-leaved Carpetgrass native
  • Big Carpetgrass native
  • Purpus' Carpetgrass
  • Golden Carpetgrass
  • Carpetgrass
  • Carpet Grass
  • Axonopus siccus

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 carpetgrasses All

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

  • Broadleaf Carpetgrass Axonopus compressus caterpillars 3 food 2
  • Narrow-leaved Carpetgrass Axonopus fissifolius caterpillars 1 food 1
  • Big Carpetgrass Axonopus furcatus caterpillars 1

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