Index / Search / Miscanthus sinensis
§1 Plant
Miscanthus sinensis Andersson
vernacular Chinese silvergrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Miscanthus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 164 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.6–7.5
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 600,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 164 counties across 21 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Avery 37011
- Beaufort 37013
- Buncombe 37021
- Cabarrus 37025
- Caldwell 37027
- Chatham 37037
- Craven 37049
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Gates 37073
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Lee 37105
- Madison 37115
- Mitchell 37121
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Pasquotank 37139
- Randolph 37151
- Rockingham 37157
- Stanly 37167
- Stokes 37169
- Vance 37181
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Arlington 51013
- Bedford 51019
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Carroll 51035
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dickenson 51051
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Grayson 51077
- Halifax 51083
- Henry 51089
- Isle of Wight 51093
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Lee 51105
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince William 51153
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Washington 51191
- Wise 51195
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MISI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2706026 ↗Record version
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