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Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Amur silvergrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Miscanthus sacchariflorus (common name: Amur silver-grass) is a grass native to temperate Northeast Asia. Culms are erect, 90 centimetres (35 in) – 250 centimetres (98 in) in height and 5 millimetres (0.20 in) – 8 millimetres (0.31 in) in diameter.
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Attributes

Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Structure [1]  Grass
Usage [2]  Very wind hardy, succeeding in maritime exposure, it can be grown as a shelter hedge though it dies down in winter; Although they die down in the winter they quickly attain their full height each season;
Height [2]  9.84 feet (3 m)
Width [2]  6.56 feet (2 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bolshekhekhtsirsky Zapovednik Ia 112282 Khabarovsk, Russia
Kedrovaya Pad Zapovednik Ia 44224 Primorsky Krai , Russia
Point Pelee National Park II 5764 Ontario, Canada
Sefton Coast 11278 England, United Kingdom
Ussuriysky Zapovednik Ia 99910 Primorsky Krai , Russia

Predators

Leptalina unicolor[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0