Play · Pre-K & K · Grades 1–5 · Grades 6–12 · Adults · about 5 min
🌿 Native or Invasive?
Twenty photos. Is it a plant native to our region, the Northeast, that feeds our insects, or an invader that crowds them out? Each answer tells you why, and how to tell it from its lookalike.
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(c) Emily Summerbell, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Emily Summerbell
More views: one individual photographed in Rock Creek Regional Park, Derwood, MD, US, 2020, from whole plant to close-up.
📏 Real size: Sprawling grass 1–3 ft. Leaves 1–3 in long and ½ in wide.
Native or invasive?
Keyboard: 1–2 to answer, Enter for next.
Photos are Creative Commons images from iNaturalist observers, credited under each one. New photos every time you play.