Play · Pre-K & K · Grades 1–5 · Grades 6–12 · Adults · about 5 min
🌿 Native or Invasive?
Twenty photos. Is it a native 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.