Index / Search / Dichanthelium aciculare
§1 Plant
Dichanthelium aciculare (Desv. ex Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark
vernacular needleleaf rosette grass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Dichanthelium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 374 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–6.5
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 381,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 374 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Decatur 13087
- Dodge 13091
- Dougherty 13095
- Emanuel 13107
- Floyd 13115
- Glynn 13127
- Hancock 13141
- Jackson 13157
- Lee 13177
- Long 13183
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Oconee 13219
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Peach 13225
- Pulaski 13235
- Sumter 13261
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Treutlen 13283
- Ware 13299
- Worth 13321
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Caldwell 37027
- Carteret 37031
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Franklin 37069
- Gaston 37071
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Guilford 37081
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Iredell 37097
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lenoir 37107
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pamlico 37137
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Rockingham 37157
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stokes 37169
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Clarendon 45027
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenwood 45047
- Horry 45051
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Oconee 45073
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- Williamsburg 45089
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 60 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Aransas 48007
- Bastrop 48021
- Bosque 48035
- Bowie 48037
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Cass 48067
- Chambers 48071
- Cherokee 48073
- Colorado 48089
- Dallas 48113
- Fort Bend 48157
- Franklin 48159
- Freestone 48161
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Gregg 48183
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hopkins 48223
- Houston 48225
- Hunt 48231
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Kenedy 48261
- Lamar 48277
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Milam 48331
- Montgomery 48339
- Morris 48343
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Newton 48351
- Nueces 48355
- Orange 48361
- Polk 48373
- Robertson 48395
- Rusk 48401
- Sabine 48403
- San Augustine 48405
- San Jacinto 48407
- San Patricio 48409
- Shelby 48419
- Tarrant 48439
- Titus 48449
- Trinity 48455
- Tyler 48457
- Van Zandt 48467
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Wood 48499
Virginia view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Amelia 51007
- Arlington 51013
- Brunswick 51025
- Caroline 51033
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Gloucester 51073
- Greensville 51081
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Orange 51137
- Prince George 51149
- Rockingham 51165
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DIAC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702633 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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