NameThatPlant.net: Tripidium ravennae

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Tripidium ravennae FAMILY Poaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Learn more about Ravenna-grass from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Saccharum ravennae FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Erianthus ravennae

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Ripidium ravennae

COMMON NAME:
Ravenna-grass, Hardy Pampas Grass

To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Tripidium ravennae, Ravenna-grass, Hardy Pampas Grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_erra_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Tripidium ravennae FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Saccharum ravennae FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Erianthus ravennae

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Ripidium ravennae

4158

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Non-native: southern Europe

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Rare

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets with purplish to staw-colored glumes

Inflorescence a large, lanceloate, much-branched, villous panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!