Plate 1 figs. a–h
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Confused withby our own model
These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.
Flowering n = 129 observations
Peak flowering in Aug, from 129 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 9 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.
- Spartina cynosuroides f. major St.-Yves
- Spartina cynosuroides var. aureomarginata W.Irving
- Spartina cynosuroides var. michauxiana (Hitchc.) St.-Yves
- Spartina michauxiana Hitchc.
- Spartina michauxiana var. suttiei Farw.
- Spartina michauxiana var. tenuior Farw.
- Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link
- Spartina pectinata f. variegata Vict.
- Spartina pectinata var. suttiei (Farw.) Fernald
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- 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.