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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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Because its tiny seeds blow in the wind, canal grass readily invades clearings and spreads to form impenetrable stands. Its white flowers and its historical association with the Panama Canal area inspired the common names paja blanca or paja canalera for this sugarcane relative, Saccharum spontaneum L..

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