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Your search found 298 taxa in the family Poaceae, Grass family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
River Cane, Giant Cane
Look for it in bottomland and riparian forests, lower slopes and bluffs along streams, seeps, stream banks, and extending into less mesic and even dry settings on circumneutral or alkaline soils over limestone or dolomite
Common (uncommon in Carolina Piedmont, rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hill Cane
Look for it in dry to moist forests on slopes
Common in Mountains (rare to uncommon in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Switch Cane, Small Cane, Mutton Grass
Look for it in savannas, pocosins, canebrakes, generally (but not solely) in wetlands
Common, primarily endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Arrow Bamboo
Look for it to be persistent or spreading from plantings
Rare (cultivated as an ornamental)
Non-native: Japan
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Common Name:
Golden Bamboo, Fishpole Bamboo
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Common in GA, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont & Coastal Plain, rare Carolina Mtns
Non-native: China & Japan
Common Name:
Yellow-groove Bamboo
Look for it to be persistent or spreading from ornamental plantings
Rare
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Giant Timber Bamboo, Japanese Timber Bamboo
Look for it to be persistent or spreading from ornamental plantings
Rare
Non-native: China
Look for it to be persistent or spreading from ornamental plantings
Waif(s)
Non-native: China
Common Name:
Makinoi Bamboo
Non-native
Look for it to be persistent or spreading from ornamental plantings
Waif(s)
Non-native: China & Japan
Look for it to be persistent or spreading from ornamental plantings
Waif(s)
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Pampas Grass
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare, cultivated & rarely escaping
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Giant Reed
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Old World
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Common Name:
Common Reed
Look for it in brackish and freshwater marshes, dredge-spoil deposit islands, ditches
Common in outer Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Non-native
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Common Name:
Carolina Triodia, Carolina Fluffgrass
Look for it in mesic swales in sandhills
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Longspike Tridens, Longspike Fluffgrass, Spike Triodia
Look for it in sandhills, moist pine savannas, roadsides
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia? perhaps introduced north & east of GA
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Common Name:
Purpletop, Purpletop Tridens, Greasy Grass, Tall Redtop
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, glades
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Sandgrass, Perennial Sandgrass
Look for it in open sandy areas
Common in Coastal Plain (endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Sandgrass
Look for it on dunes, maritime dry grasslands, open sandy areas
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Woodoats, Slender Spikegrass
Look for it in savanna-pocosin ecotones, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, moist hardwood swamps, other moist habitats
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Longleaf Woodoats, Longleaf Spikegrass, Upland Oats
Look for it in moist hardwood forests, swamps, other moist habitats
Common (uncommon or rare north of SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
River Oats, Northern Sea Oats, Fish-on-a-Pole, Indian Woodoats
Look for it on riverbanks, streambanks, in bottomland forests, seepages & glades over mafic or calcareous rock, usually in nutrient-rich soils
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sea Oats
Look for it - it's abundant on unforested primary & secondary dunes on barrier islands, and on dry to mesic sand flats & interdune swales
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in SC Coastal Plain
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
gophertail lovegrass
Look for it on sandy shores
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Lovegrass, Teal Lovegrass
Look for it in marshes, on shores, riverbanks
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lacegrass, Lace Lovegrass
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Weeping Lovegrass
Look for it on roadsides
Common
Non-native: southern Africa
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Common Name:
Bigtop Lovegrass
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
India Lovegrass
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Tropics
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Common Name:
Purple Lovegrass, Tumblegrass
Look for it in sandy fields, roadsides, woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Elliott's Lovegrass
Look for it in ultisol wet pine savannas, maritime wet grasslands, inland edges of brackish marshes, inland edges of freshwater tidal marshes, calcareously-influenced wet pine savannas
Common in GA, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare northwards
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in fields, roadsides, powerline rights-of-way, other disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains, rare in NC Piedmont)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Orchard Grass
Look for it in pastures, fields, woodland edges, roadsides
Common (uncommon in NC-SC, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Downy Brome, Downy Chess, Downy Cheat, Cheatgrass
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Annual Rabbitsfoot Grass, Beardgrass, Annual Beardgrass
Look for it in brackish marshes, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in NC, rare in GA Piedmont)
Non-native: southern Europe to western Asia
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Common Name:
Poverty Brome, Barren Brome, Cheatgrass
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare in NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Smooth Brome, Hungarian Brome
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common in Mountains (rare in Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Hairy Woodland Brome, Common Eastern Brome, Canada Brome
Look for it in mesic forests, generally on rocky slopes
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in alluvial soils along rivers
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Satin Brome, Virginia Brome, Nottoway River Brome
Look for it in moist forests, especially along small stream bottoms
Rare? The range of this species is poorly known, owing to confusion between it, B. pubescens & B. latiglumis
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Rescue Grass
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains, uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Cheat, Common Chess, Rye Brome
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains & GA Piedmont, rare in GA Mtns & GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Hairy Chess, Meadow Brome
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Japanese Chess, Japanese Brome
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Field Brome
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Annual Bluegrass, Six-weeks Grass, Speargass
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Canada Bluegrass, Flat-stemmed Bluegrass
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon (common in NC Mtns; rare in GA Piedmont & SC Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe (?) (but often found in remote natural areas)
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Common Name:
Autumn Bluegrass
Look for it in moist or dry nutrient-rich forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist forests, disturbed areas, bottomlands
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
early bluegrass
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist to dry-mesic forests
Common in GA & NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kentucky Bluegrass, Junegrass, Speargrass
Look for it in lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Two-flower Melicgrass
Look for it in forests and woodlands, including coastal fringe and maritime forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Mannagrass, Floating Mannagrass
Look for it in shallow water, wet mucky soils, floodplain sloughs, cypress ponds
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fowl Mannagrass
Look for it in wet meadows, seepages, bogs, marshes, swamp forests, freshwater tidal marshes, bottomland forests in mesic soils
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rat-tail Fescue
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mtns & GA Pdmt) (rare in GA Coastal Plain & NC Mtns)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Southern Six-weeks Fescue
Look for it in fields, on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in GA Mountains & Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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