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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Eleusininae
  8. Windmill Grasses

genus

Windmill Grasses

Chloris

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

Field notes

Children

  • Finger Grass present
  • Feather Finger Grass native
  • Rhodes Grass introduced
  • Tumble Windmillgrass native
  • Hooded Windmill Grass native
  • Black Windmill Grass present
  • Spider Web Chloris present
  • Shortspike Windmill Grass native
  • Slender Chloris present
  • Tall Chloris
  • Radiate Fingergrass
  • Slimspike Windmill Grass native
  • Comb Windmill Grass
  • Mexican Windmill Grass
  • Texas Windmillgrass native
  • Chloris pilosa
  • Chloris × pseudosagrana
  • Chloris mossambicensis
  • Chloris castilloniana
  • Chloris flagellifera

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
Annual Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native windmill grasses All

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

  • Tumble Windmillgrass Chloris verticillata
  • Hooded Windmill Grass Chloris cucullata
  • Feather Finger Grass Chloris virgata
  • Slimspike Windmill Grass Chloris andropogonoides
  • Texas Windmillgrass Chloris texensis

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