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.