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§1 Plant
Setaria scheelei (Steud.) Hitchc.
vernacular southwestern bristlegrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Setaria
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 55 counties across 2 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 55 counties across 2 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 54 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Comal 48091
- DeWitt 48123
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- Fayette 48149
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grimes 48185
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Karnes 48255
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Matagorda 48321
- Maverick 48323
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Nueces 48355
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- San Patricio 48409
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SESC2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289662 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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