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Leersia oryzoides Rice Cut-Grass


Native To: New York City Wetland Indicator: OBL Soil: pH 5.1-8.8


Form/Color Moderate grower to 5', sprawling, rough Stormwater Insufficient information to determine
leaves, saw toothed, blooms and fruits in Tolerance: tolerance.
June-October.


Urban Tolerant of concrete debris.


Tolerance:


Habitat: Freshwater nontidal marshes, wet


ditches, open swamp forests.
Ecosystem
Services:


Hydrology: Tolerant of flooding, drought.


Ornamental Forming dense colonies, this upright
Value: grass is yellow-green in color. The Compatibility: Aggressively colonial, may crowd out


panicle is open and drooping with seed less aggressive plants.


heads covered in minute bristles.


Salt Intolerant of salt.
Tolerance: Other:


Shade Tolerant of partial shade.


Tolerance:


Leersia virginica White Grass


Native To: New York City Wetland Indicator: FACW Soil: pH 4.5-8.5


Form/Color To 5', sprawling, blooms and fruit in July- Stormwater Insufficient information to determine


October. Tolerance: tolerance.


Urban Tolerant of concrete debris.
Tolerance:


Habitat: Wet woods, along trails, disturbed sites.


Ecosystem Host to some butterflies.
Services:


Hydrology: Intolerant of drought.


Ornamental Grass with soft-textured foliage and a


Value: slender inflorescence with few spikelets. Compatibility: Not a known allelopath, moderate
grower, moderate rate of vegetative


spread.


Salt Intolerant of salt.
Tolerance: Other: Can be differentiated from the similar


looking invasive Japanese stiltgrass
Shade Tolerant of shade. by short retrorse hairs at each node
Tolerance: along the culm.

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