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§1 Plant
Phalaris paradoxa L.
vernacular hood 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
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 42 counties across 6 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 42 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
California view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Placer 06061
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Yolo 06113
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHPA5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289758 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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