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§1 Plant

Polypogon interruptus Kunth

vernacular ditch rabbitsfoot grass — species · Poaceae


USDA
POIN7
GBIF
5289915
Rank
species
ditch rabbitsfoot grass (Polypogon interruptus)
Platephotograph · cstobieCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Polypogon
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 86 counties across 12 states/territories
Legend Native · 82 Introduced · 4 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 86 counties across 12 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 10 N
California view state ↗ 43 N
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 5 N
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
Oregon view state ↗ 7 N
Texas view state ↗ 2 N
Utah view state ↗ 4 N
Washington view state ↗ 3 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/POIN7 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5289915 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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