Index / Search / Cenchrus spinifex
§1 Plant
Cenchrus spinifex Cav.
vernacular coastal sandbur — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Cenchrus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 346 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 346 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Bradley 05011
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Hempstead 05057
- Izard 05065
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Lincoln 05079
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Pike 05109
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
California view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 55 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Evangeline 22039
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 107 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Andrews 48003
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Bailey 48017
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Cass 48067
- Childress 48075
- Cochran 48079
- Collingsworth 48087
- Colorado 48089
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Donley 48129
- Duval 48131
- Eastland 48133
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Falls 48145
- Gaines 48165
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Glasscock 48173
- Goliad 48175
- Grayson 48181
- Harris 48201
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hockley 48219
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jasper 48241
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Jones 48253
- Kenedy 48261
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lamb 48279
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Limestone 48293
- Live Oak 48297
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- Montgomery 48339
- Morris 48343
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Nueces 48355
- Oldham 48359
- Parmer 48369
- Presidio 48377
- Robertson 48395
- Rusk 48401
- Sabine 48403
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Scurry 48415
- Sherman 48421
- Smith 48423
- Starr 48427
- Sterling 48431
- Stonewall 48433
- Swisher 48437
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Titus 48449
- Travis 48453
- Upshur 48459
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Wheeler 48483
- Wichita 48485
- Willacy 48489
- Wilson 48493
- Winkler 48495
- Wood 48499
- Yoakum 48501
- Zapata 48505
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CESP4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289726 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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