Index / Search / Eleocharis montevidensis
§1 Plant
Eleocharis montevidensis Kunth
vernacular sand spikerush — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eleocharis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 231 counties across 15 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 231 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
California view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Butte 06007
- Glenn 06021
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Merced 06047
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Trinity 06105
- Ventura 06111
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Bienville 22013
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 109 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Austin 48015
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Chambers 48071
- Coleman 48083
- Collingsworth 48087
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Cooke 48097
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Dickens 48125
- Edwards 48137
- Ellis 48139
- Falls 48145
- Floyd 48153
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Gray 48179
- Gregg 48183
- Grimes 48185
- Hamilton 48193
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Houston 48225
- Hunt 48231
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jasper 48241
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Karnes 48255
- Kaufman 48257
- Kenedy 48261
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Lamb 48279
- Lampasas 48281
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Lipscomb 48295
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Milam 48331
- Montague 48337
- Montgomery 48339
- Motley 48345
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Orange 48361
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parker 48367
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Real 48385
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Rockwall 48397
- Rusk 48401
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Scurry 48415
- Somervell 48425
- Sterling 48431
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Trinity 48455
- Tyler 48457
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Ward 48475
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Winkler 48495
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELMO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2717181 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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