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§1 Plant

Chrysopogon pauciflorus (Chapm.) Benth. ex Vasey

vernacular Florida false beardgrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
CHPA11
GBIF
5290134
Rank
species
Florida false beardgrass (Chrysopogon pauciflorus)
Platephotograph · Jay HornCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Chrysopogon
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 20 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 20 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 20 counties across 3 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CHPA11 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5290134 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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