Index / Search / Calamagrostis porteri
§1 Plant
Calamagrostis porteri A. Gray
vernacular Porter's reedgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Calamagrostis
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 79 counties across 10 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 79 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Campbell 51031
- Carroll 51035
- Craig 51045
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Highland 51091
- Lee 51105
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wythe 51197
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAPO3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704876 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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