Prairie Cordgrass is a tall, coarse grass of wet prairies, wet meadows, and marshland edges of the interior North America. Its sharp-edged leaves can cut skin. It forms dense monocultures that provide excellent cover and nesting habitat for marsh wrens, red-winged blackbirds, and bitterns. Muskrats use it for lodge construction.
Habitat
Wet prairies, wet meadows, and inland marshes across central North America
Diet
Nesting habitat for marsh wren and bitterns; used by muskrats for lodge construction
How common
Common
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