America Once Had Bamboo Forests

There used to be native bamboo forests in North America, composed of river cane, a plant that extended from New York to Florida and as far west as Ohio and Texas. These dense thickets of cane covered wetlands, riverbanks and floodplains before they were extensively cleared. Today, rivercane survives in scattered patches, but it remains one of North America's native bamboo species.

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