Bodies were found in fields and canebrakes. Thick stands of tall grass, known as canebrakes, grow in wetter areas. It mainly consists of moist mixed semi-evergreen forests, moist mixed deciduous forests, canebrakes and grasslands. It and other species of "Arundinaria" may grow in large monotypic colonies called canebrakes. Canebrakes declined after European settlement of the American southeast. It tolerates wildfire, and canebrakes are maintained by a normal fire regime.