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Phalaris caroliniana
Also called Carolina Canary Grass, May Grass
Carolina canarygrass is a small annual grass native to the southern United States and northern Mexico that grows in moist places. It is a wild grass rather than a garden ornamental, so it is grown mainly for habitat or restoration plantings.
Phalaris caroliniana is a species of grass known as Carolina canarygrass and maygrass.
Timothy canarygrass · Bulbous canarygrass · Reed canarygrass · Shortspike canarygrass · Canary grass · Hood canarygrass · Canarygrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phalaris caroliniana 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.
