Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Poaceae | Phalaris angusta | Timothy Canary Grass | Freshwater marshes, bayous, ditches, waterfowl impoundments. | Native of tropical America, perhaps native in LA and TX. | |
Poaceae | Phalaris aquatica | Bulbous Canary-grass | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. | |
Poaceae | Phalaris arundinacea | Reed Canary-grass, Ribbon Grass | Fens, calcareous spring marshes, wet meadows, wet fields, moist forests, moist disturbed areas, bogs. | NL (Newfoundland) west to AK, south to NC, TN, AR, NM, CA; Mexico; Eurasia. | |
Poaceae | Phalaris brachystachys | Short-spike Canary-grass | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. | |
Poaceae | Phalaris canariensis | Birdseed Grass, Canary-grass | Roadsides, gardens, yards (under bird feeders), other disturbed areas. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. | |
Poaceae | Phalaris caroliniana | Maygrass, Carolina Canary-grass | Borders of oligohaline tidal marshes, bottomland forests, ditches, roadsides, pastures, fallow fields, disturbed areas. | NC west to OR, south into Mexico (BCN, CHH, COA, NLE, SON), the original distribution now obscured. | |
Poaceae | Phalaris minor | Lesser Canary Grass | Waste areas near wool-combing mills, other disturbed sites. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. Also reported for other scattered states in e. North America, including peninsular FL (Kartesz 1999). | |
Poaceae | Phalaris paradoxa | Mediterranean Canary Grass | {habitat}. | Reported for NC, MD, NJ, and PA (Barkworth in FNA 2007a; Kartesz 1999) |
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