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

genus

Sweetgrasses

Anthoxanthum

Traits
Includes
3 native 2 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sweet Vernal Grass introduced
  • Northern Sweetgrass native
  • Bison Grass native
  • California Sweet Grass native
  • Small Sweet Vernal Grass present
  • Alpine Sweetgrass present
  • Anthoxanthum nipponicum present
  • Anthoxanthum glabrum present
  • Anthoxanthum ovatum
  • Arctic Sweet Grass

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 sweetgrasses All

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

  • Northern Sweetgrass Anthoxanthum hirtum caterpillars 1
  • Bison Grass Anthoxanthum nitens caterpillars 1
  • California Sweet Grass Anthoxanthum occidentale flowers 1

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