Saccharum officinarum L.

Sugarcane

Natural range:  Old World Tropics

Habitat:  When escaped, weedy

Recognition:  Large cane having auriculate leaves with the ligule 2-3 mm long.  Feathery-fuzzy awnless spikelets (spikelets awned in S. giganteum).  Sessile spikelets 3-5 mm long, with hairs longer then the glumes.

Florida status:  Extensively cultivated between Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades, also used a little as an ornamental grass.  Sometimes escaped.