Index / Search / Cynosurus echinatus
§1 Plant
Cynosurus echinatus L.
vernacular bristly dogstail grass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Cynosurus
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 96 counties across 19 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 96 counties across 19 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 9 I ▾
California view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Humboldt 06023
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 5 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CYEC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704394 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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