4158

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Non-native: southern Europe

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Rare

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Invasive?

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

• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Northeast
• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Southeast

 

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!

• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p746
• New Invaders of the Northeast and Northcentral US p019
• New Invaders of the Southeast p013
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p400

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

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