North Carolina Wildflowers

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Poaceae>Arundinaria

Giant Cane (Arundinaria gigantea) Giant Cane (Arundinaria gigantea)
Craven Co., NC
28 Aug 2005

Widespread, but nowhere near ubiquitous, in moist areas in NC, Cane is the caterpillar host plant for a number of interesting butterfly species.

Giant Cane (Arundinaria gigantea) Giant Cane (Arundinaria gigantea)
Chatham Co., NC
10 Jun 2006

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Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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