Index / Search / Bulbostylis barbata
§1 Plant
Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Clarke
vernacular watergrass — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Bulbostylis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 132 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 132 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Butler 01013
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Conecuh 01035
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dale 01045
- Escambia 01053
- Geneva 01061
- Henry 01067
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Macon 01087
- Marengo 01091
- Mobile 01097
- Montgomery 01101
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Sumter 01119
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
Florida view state ↗ 50 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Hamilton 12047
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 22 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BUBA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5292372 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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