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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Aveninae
  8. Wedgegrass

genus

Wedgegrass

Sphenopholis

Traits
Includes
6 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Prairie Wedge Grass native
  • Slender Wedgescale native
  • Prairie False Oat native
  • Shiny Wedgegrass native
  • Swamp Oats native
  • Longleaf Wedgescale native
  • Sphenopholis × pallens

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 wedgegrass All

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

  • Prairie Wedge Grass Sphenopholis obtusata
  • Slender Wedgescale Sphenopholis intermedia
  • Prairie False Oat Sphenopholis interrupta
  • Shiny Wedgegrass Sphenopholis nitida
  • Swamp Oats Sphenopholis pensylvanica
  • Longleaf Wedgescale Sphenopholis filiformis

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