Common Name:
amur
silvergrass
Common Name Synonyms:
silver plumegrass, Japanese plumegrass, Chinese silvergrass, Japanese silvergrass
Scientific Name:
Miscanthus sacchariflorus
Family Name:
Poaceae (Graminae)
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Grass Family
Life Cycle
introduced perennial, reproducing by seed and long, slender rhizomes that form colonal patches
Culms
upright, tall, slender above and thick below, solitary, arising form rhizomes, nodes with long hairs
Leaves
leaves on stem; blades flat, smooth, uppersides densely haired near base, prominent whitish midrib, sharp pointed, margins rough; rolled in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous fringed with hairs; sheaths smooth to sparsely haired below, striated
Seedheads
erminal panicle, composed of many racemes, drooping or ascending, silky, white to yellowish-brown; basal spikelet hairs twice as long as spikelet, lemma awnless
