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PRE — Plant Risk Evaluator

Sporobolus heterolepis

by MBOT
Common Name(s)
Prairie dropseed
Synonym(s)
Agrostis heterolepis, Vilfa heterolepis

Is this plant a cultivar?  No

Life History:  Perennial

Growth Form:  grass

Midwest, High Plains, Eastern US

Bright green hairlike leaves, but foliage turns orange in the fall. Forms a mass. 

Grown throughout the US as an ornamental

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