Chinese silvergrass     Information
INVASIVE
Scientific Name:Miscanthus sinensis


NOTES: Native to eastern Asia throughout most of China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.

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Chinese silvergrass
Genus species: Miscanthus sinensis
Common Name: Chinese silvergrass
Family Name: Poaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, or woody in a few genera; stems terete, internodes hollow or solid; leaves alternate, 2-ranked, simple, and parallel-veined, with sheathing bases, the sheaths usually open, typically with a ligule at junction of sheath and blade; flowers (florets) bisexual or unisexual, subtended by bracts (a lemma and usually a palea), in spikelets usually subtended by a pair of bracts (glumes); fruit a caryopsis.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Grass
CNC Habitat: Herb Wall
Identified by:M. Becus
Months in Bloom:  
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