Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus

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Family: Poaceae
Botanical Name: Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus
Common Name: Japanese Stiltgrass, Nepalese Brown-top, Japanese Grass
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Flora of Virginia Name/Status: Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus
Comments: An awned form has been named var. imberbe (Nees) Honda and is known from Greensville and Warren counties, perhaps elsewhere. This highly invasive Asiatic grass is shade-tolerant, fast-spreading, and capable of outcompeting other herbaceous plants over large areas of forest floor. Forest roads and trails, as well as small-scale gap and soil disturbances, serve as vectors for its spread.
Habitat: Floodplain forests, swamp hummocks, mesic to dry-mesic upland forests, wet flatwoods, shaded clearings, and other moist, often shaded, disturbed habitats. Now common in most parts of the state.
Native Status: Introduced

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