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Patis racemosa
Also called Black Fruited Mountain Rice, Black Fruited Ricegrass, Black Seed Mountain Ricegrass, Black Seed Ricegrass, Mountain Ricegrass, Black Fruit Mountain Ricegrass, Blackseed Ricegrass
A perennial woodland grass native to northeastern US and southeastern Canada, growing in dry to moist forests and woodlands. It is easy to identify by its broad, shiny leaves and long-awned spikelets, and it is grown mainly as a native ornamental or for restoration planting.
Piptatherum racemosum, commonly called black-fruited mountain ricegrass or simply mountain ricegrass, is a species of grass native to the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.
Piptatherum racemosum is a conspicuous and easily identifiable grass with broad, shiny cauline leaves and large, long-awned spikelets. It grows in dry or mesic forests and woodlands.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Piptatherum racemosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
