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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution
Poaceae	Calamagrostis arenaria	European Beachgrass	Dunes, disturbed areas.	Native of Europe. Introduced in MD and PA (Kartesz 1999).
Poaceae	Calamagrostis breviligulata ssp. breviligulata	American Beachgrass	Dunes along the Atlantic Ocean and major estuaries (such as the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays), rarely on dry sandy shores along Coastal Plain Rivers (in VA).	NL (Newfoundland) south to about Cape Hatteras, Dare County, NC, and on shores around the Great Lakes; planted farther south. As a native grass, Calamagrostis breviligulata ranged south only to NC, where it was rare; it is now commonly planted ("sprigged") in the Carolinas as a sand-binder and is now common south into SC.
Poaceae	Calamagrostis cainii	Cain's Reedgrass	High elevation rocky summits.	Endemic to a few mountain-tops in the Southern Appalachians, C. cainii, once thought to be endemic to Mount LeConte, TN, was discovered at two sites in NC in 1989 and 1990 – Mount Craig, Yancey County, and Craggy Pinnacle, Buncombe County (Wiser 1991).
Poaceae	Calamagrostis canadensis var. canadensis	Bluejoint, Canada Reedgrass	Wet meadows along streams, high elevation openings, such as grassy balds and cliff bases.	Widespread and common across n. North America, reaching its southern limit in the east in w. NC, e. TN (Chester et al. 1993), and ne. GA (Rabun Bald, Rabun County).
Poaceae	Calamagrostis canadensis var. macouniana		Bottomlands.	NL (Newfoundland) and AB south to NJ, PA, VA?, OH, w. KY, IL, MO, NE, WY, OR. Reported for VA (FNA), the documentation unknown. Reported south to NJ and KY only (Kartesz 1999). {investigate}
Poaceae	Calamagrostis epigejos	Bushgrass, Feathertop	Disturbed areas.	Native of Eurasia.
Poaceae	Calamagrostis inexpansa	Northern Reedgrass	Wet meadows, fens.	NL (Newfoundland) and NL (Labrador) west to AK, south to NY, OH, n. WV (Preston and Randolph counties), IA, AZ, and CA; apparently disjunct in w. NC; ne. Asia.
Poaceae	Calamagrostis insperata		Rock outcrops; rocky woodlands.	OH and MO south to TN and AR.
Poaceae	Calamagrostis macrolepis	Far Eastern Reedgrass		Native of n. Eurasia.
Poaceae	Calamagrostis pickeringii	Pickering’s Reedgrass	Bogs.	NL west to ON, south to NY and s. NJ.
Poaceae	Calamagrostis porteri	Porter's Reedgrass	Dry to dry-mesic forests and woodlands, especially in fire-maintained situations, forest edges, serpentine barrens, cliff bases.	NY to AL, in the Appalachians; it was first reported from NC by Ware (1973).

Family

Scientific Name

Common Name

Habitat

Distribution

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Poaceae

Calamagrostis arenaria

European Beachgrass

Dunes, disturbed areas.

Native of Europe. Introduced in MD and PA (Kartesz 1999).

Poaceae

Calamagrostis breviligulata ssp. breviligulata

American Beachgrass

Dunes along the Atlantic Ocean and major estuaries (such as the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays), rarely on dry sandy shores along Coastal Plain Rivers (in VA).

NL (Newfoundland) south to about Cape Hatteras, Dare County, NC, and on shores around the Great Lakes; planted farther south. As a native grass, Calamagrostis breviligulata ranged south only to NC, where it was rare; it is now commonly planted ("sprigged") in the Carolinas as a sand-binder and is now common south into SC.

Poaceae

Calamagrostis cainii

Cain's Reedgrass

High elevation rocky summits.

Endemic to a few mountain-tops in the Southern Appalachians, C. cainii, once thought to be endemic to Mount LeConte, TN, was discovered at two sites in NC in 1989 and 1990 – Mount Craig, Yancey County, and Craggy Pinnacle, Buncombe County (Wiser 1991).

Poaceae

Calamagrostis canadensis var. canadensis

Bluejoint, Canada Reedgrass

Wet meadows along streams, high elevation openings, such as grassy balds and cliff bases.

Widespread and common across n. North America, reaching its southern limit in the east in w. NC, e. TN (Chester et al. 1993), and ne. GA (Rabun Bald, Rabun County).

Poaceae

Calamagrostis canadensis var. macouniana

Bottomlands.

NL (Newfoundland) and AB south to NJ, PA, VA?, OH, w. KY, IL, MO, NE, WY, OR. Reported for VA (FNA), the documentation unknown. Reported south to NJ and KY only (Kartesz 1999). {investigate}

Poaceae

Calamagrostis epigejos

Bushgrass, Feathertop

Disturbed areas.

Native of Eurasia.

Poaceae

Calamagrostis inexpansa

Northern Reedgrass

Wet meadows, fens.

NL (Newfoundland) and NL (Labrador) west to AK, south to NY, OH, n. WV (Preston and Randolph counties), IA, AZ, and CA; apparently disjunct in w. NC; ne. Asia.