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

genus

Bluestems

Andropogon

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Big Bluestem native
  • Sand Bluestem native
  • Gamba Grass
  • Andropogon pumilus

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 bluestems All

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

  • Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardi caterpillars 14 food 10 flowers 9 shelter 1
  • Sand Bluestem Andropogon hallii caterpillars 10 food 3

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