Microstegium vimineum(Trin.) A.Camus

Japanese stiltgrass

WFO wfo-0000880011 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Microstegium vimineum, photographed by Erin Lalime
fig. a Erin Lalime, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 202061423
Microstegium vimineum, photographed by Nathan T. Jones
fig. b Nathan T. Jones, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200538572
Microstegium vimineum, photographed by Chris Merck
fig. c Chris Merck, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201946181
Microstegium vimineum, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201721728
Microstegium vimineum, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. e 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202863186
Microstegium vimineum, photographed by Surly Aardvark
fig. f Surly Aardvark, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203073774
Microstegium vimineum, photographed by stephen
fig. g stephen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201647899
Microstegium vimineum, photographed by stephen
fig. h stephen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198223102

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Flowering n = 217 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 217 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 40 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Andropogon vimineus Trin.
  • Arthraxon lanceolatus Miq.
  • Arthraxon nodosus Kom.
  • Eulalia cantonensis (Rendle) Hitchc.
  • Eulalia viminea (Trin.) Kuntze
  • Eulalia viminea var. imberbis (Nees ex Steud.) Kuntze
  • Eulalia viminea var. variabilis Kuntze
  • Microstegium aristulatum Robyns & Tournay
  • Microstegium cantonense (Rendle) A.Camus
  • Microstegium debile (Balansa) A.Camus
  • Microstegium dilatatum Koidz.
  • Microstegium imberbe (Nees ex Steud.) Tzvelev
  • Microstegium nodosum (Kom.) Tzvelev
  • Microstegium reticulatum B.S.Sun ex H.Peng & X.Yang
  • Microstegium vimineum f. polystachyum (Franch. & Sav.) T.Koyama
  • Microstegium vimineum f. willdenowianum (Nees) Osada
  • Microstegium vimineum subsp. nodosum (Kom.) Tzvelev
  • Microstegium vimineum var. imberbe (Nees ex Steud.) Honda
  • Microstegium vimineum var. loharkhetianum Kandwal & B.K.Gupta
  • Microstegium vimineum var. monostachyum (Franch. & Sav.) Nakai
  • Microstegium vimineum var. polystachyum (Franch. & Sav.) Ohwi
  • Microstegium vimineum var. vimineum
  • Microstegium vimineum var. willdenovianum (Nees) E.G.Camus & A.Camus
  • Microstegium vimineum var. willdenowianum (Nees) Sur

and 16 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.