Index / Search / Chloris virgata
§1 Plant
Chloris virgata Sw.
vernacular feather fingergrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Chloris
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 268 counties across 26 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 268 counties across 26 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
California view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Douglas 20045
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greenwood 20073
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Pawnee 20145
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Rice 20159
- Rush 20165
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Wichita 20203
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- 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
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Valencia 35061
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 80 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Bastrop 48021
- Baylor 48023
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Childress 48075
- Coleman 48083
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Floyd 48153
- Garza 48169
- Gray 48179
- Hale 48189
- Hall 48191
- Hansford 48195
- Hardeman 48197
- Harris 48201
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hockley 48219
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jones 48253
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Knox 48275
- Lamb 48279
- Leon 48289
- Lipscomb 48295
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- McLennan 48309
- Moore 48341
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Nolan 48353
- Nueces 48355
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Roberts 48393
- Robertson 48395
- Sherman 48421
- Smith 48423
- Sterling 48431
- Sutton 48435
- Swisher 48437
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terry 48445
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
- Williamson 48491
- Wise 48497
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHVI4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289624 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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