Index / Search / Crypsis schoenoides

§1 Plant

Crypsis schoenoides (L.) Lam.

vernacular swamp pricklegrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
CRSC
GBIF
9379326 syn.
Rank
species
swamp pricklegrass (Crypsis schoenoides)
Platephotograph · David Keil source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 74 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 74 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 74 counties across 14 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 2 I
California view state ↗ 33 I
Illinois view state ↗ 7 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I
Nevada view state ↗ 4 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 6 I
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I
Oregon view state ↗ 1 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 I
Utah view state ↗ 3 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CRSC ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/9379326 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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