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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Red Tops, Guinea Grass, Signalgrasses, and Allies
  8. Cupgrasses

genus

Cupgrasses

Eriochloa

Traits
Includes
5 native 2 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Hairy Cupgrass introduced
  • Texas Cup Grass native
  • Cup Grass present
  • Prairie Cupgrass native
  • Perennial Cup-grass
  • Taper-Tip Cup Grass native
  • Bearded Cup Grass native
  • Cup Grass
  • Louisiana Cupgrass
  • Eriochloa meyeriana
  • Longleaf Cupgrass native
  • Canyon Cupgrass

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 cupgrasses All

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

  • Texas Cup Grass Eriochloa sericea caterpillars 1
  • Prairie Cupgrass Eriochloa contracta caterpillars 1
  • Taper-Tip Cup Grass Eriochloa acuminata
  • Bearded Cup Grass Eriochloa aristata
  • Longleaf Cupgrass Eriochloa michauxii

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