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Bear-grass (Xerophyllum tenax) By Russ Holmes. Bear-grass is in the Liliaceae (lily family) which contains 478 species in North America and approximately 4,200 species worldwide distributed mostly in the tropics.
Aug 20, 2018 · Beargrass. National Park Service. Several times throughout the Lewis and Clark journals, the writers refer to a plant they named beargrass. This common wildflower (Xerophyllum tenax) is actually not a grass, but a member of the family.
Xerophyllum tenax is a North American species of plants in the corn lily family. [1][2] It is known by several common names, including bear grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass. [3] Description. Xerophyllum tenax is a perennial herb [4] that can grow to 15–150 centimetres (6–59 inches) in height.
Beargrass, or rattlesnake master, is an herbaceous perennial in the Apiaceae (carrot) family. It is native to open woodlands and tall grass prairies of the central United States and is also distributed across many eastern states.
The western species, common bear grass (X. tenax), is also known as elk grass and fire lily. It is a light green mountain perennial with a stout unbranched stem, 0.6 to 2 metres (2 to 6 feet) high, which rises from a tuberlike rootstock and cordlike roots.
Since common beargrass roots are deeper than those of most conifer seedlings, common beargrass control may be less necessary than control of other competitors, such as long-stolon sedge (Carex pensylvanica), with shallow roots that compete directly with conifer seedling roots.
Bear Grass (Xerophyllum Tenax) gets its name from the observations of bears eating the young fleshy stems and Grizzly bears using the leaves for their dens. Though not a true grass, other names for this plant include Indian Basket Grass, Deer Grass, Elk Grass, and Soap Grass.
