Common Name: amur silvergrass, silver plumegrass, Japanese plumegrass, Chinese silvergrass, Japanese silvergrassScientific Name: Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Franch.Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced perennial, reproducing by seed and long, slender rhizomes that form colonal patches Culmsupright, tall, slender above and thick below, solitary, arising form rhizomes, nodes with long hairs Leavesleaves on stem; blades flat, smooth, uppersides densely haired near base, prominent whitish midrib, sharp pointed, margins rough; rolled in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous fringed with hairs; sheaths smooth to sparsely haired below, striated Seedheadserminal panicle, composed of many racemes, drooping or ascending, silky, white to yellowish-brown; basal spikelet hairs twice as long as spikelet, lemma awnless