Index / Search / Zizaniopsis miliacea
§1 Plant
Zizaniopsis miliacea (Michx.) Döll & Asch.
vernacular giant cutgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Zizaniopsis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 241 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 12 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–70 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.3–9
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Winter
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 210,000
- Propagation
- seed, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 241 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 7 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Burleson 48051
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Collin 48085
- Colorado 48089
- Dallas 48113
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Henderson 48213
- Houston 48225
- Hunt 48231
- Jefferson 48245
- Karnes 48255
- Lee 48287
- Leon 48289
- Llano 48299
- Madison 48313
- Matagorda 48321
- McLennan 48309
- Montgomery 48339
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Newton 48351
- Orange 48361
- Polk 48373
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Smith 48423
- Tarrant 48439
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Trinity 48455
- Walker 48471
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Wood 48499
Virginia view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Arlington 51013
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fluvanna 51065
- Goochland 51075
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Prince George 51149
- Richmond 51159
- Southampton 51175
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Warren 51187
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ZIMI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703487 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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