Index / Search / Cenchrus spinifex
§1 Plant
Cenchrus spinifex Cav.
vernacular coastal sandbur — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Cenchrus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 191 counties across 14 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 191 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Bradley 05011
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Hempstead 05057
- Izard 05065
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Lincoln 05079
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Pike 05109
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 55 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Evangeline 22039
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CESP4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289726 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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