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

genus

Woodoats

Chasmanthium

Traits
Includes
5 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • River Oats native
  • Longleaf Woodoats native
  • Slender Spikegrass native
  • Shiny Woodoats native
  • Bird-bill Spikegrass native

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 woodoats All

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

  • River Oats Chasmanthium latifolium caterpillars 4 food 1 flowers 6
  • Longleaf Woodoats Chasmanthium sessiliflorum caterpillars 3 flowers 1
  • Slender Spikegrass Chasmanthium laxum caterpillars 3
  • Shiny Woodoats Chasmanthium nitidum
  • Bird-bill Spikegrass Chasmanthium ornithorhynchum

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