| Author | Carrière ex A. & C. Rivière | |
| Distribution | Mostly Sandhills, Piedmont, and Mountains; apparently rare on the Coastal Plain. Our specimens need to be double-checked for P. bambusoides.
Native of China; in N.A. scattered from NY and B.C. southward. | |
| Abundance | Uncommon. It is widely planted and persists in yards, escaping locally. Plants form dense thickets. | |
| Habitat | Abandoned lots, roadside thickets, suburban woodlands, streambanks, pastures, etc. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting rarely. A large population in Southern Pines, Moore Co., suddenly and completely died; and so it is presumed that it had flowered just prior. | |
| Identification | This bamboo grows up to 30 feet high, each stem up to 2.5 inches thick. The stems eventually become dull yellow, after being a bright golden-yellow earlier. From P. bambusoides it differs in having dissimilar stem internode lengths (see Weakley 2018). See also the account for Pseudosasa japonica. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | None
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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