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§1 Plant
Phalaris caroliniana Walter
vernacular Carolina canarygrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Phalaris
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 379 counties across 25 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 379 counties across 25 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Chicot 05017
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Logan 05083
- Lonoke 05085
- Miller 05091
- Ouachita 05103
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Sebastian 05131
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
California view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 59 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Amite 28005
- Coahoma 28027
- Forrest 28035
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Humphreys 28053
- Issaquena 28055
- Jefferson 28063
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lawrence 28077
- Lee 28081
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Newton 28101
- Pearl River 28109
- Pike 28113
- Quitman 28119
- Scott 28123
- Simpson 28127
- Sunflower 28133
- Walthall 28147
- Washington 28151
Missouri view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Alfalfa 40003
- Bryan 40013
- Canadian 40017
- Carter 40019
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Custer 40039
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Hughes 40063
- Jackson 40065
- Kiowa 40075
- Le Flore 40079
- Logan 40083
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- McClain 40087
- McIntosh 40091
- Murray 40099
- Muskogee 40101
- Oklahoma 40109
- Payne 40119
- Pontotoc 40123
- Roger Mills 40129
- Rogers 40131
- Wagoner 40145
- Washington 40147
- Washita 40149
- Woods 40151
- Woodward 40153
Oregon view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 90 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Aransas 48007
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Austin 48015
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bowie 48037
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Childress 48075
- Collin 48085
- Colorado 48089
- Coryell 48099
- Dallas 48113
- Dickens 48125
- El Paso 48141
- Falls 48145
- Fayette 48149
- Franklin 48159
- Galveston 48167
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Gregg 48183
- Hamilton 48193
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hunt 48231
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Jones 48253
- Karnes 48255
- Kent 48263
- Kerr 48265
- Kinney 48271
- Lampasas 48281
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Madison 48313
- Matagorda 48321
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Pecos 48371
- Polk 48373
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- Rusk 48401
- Sabine 48403
- San Augustine 48405
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Shelby 48419
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Trinity 48455
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Washington 48477
- Wharton 48481
- Wheeler 48483
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHCA6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289760 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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