Index / Search / Chloris virgata
§1 Plant
Chloris virgata Sw.
vernacular feather fingergrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Chloris
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 99 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 99 counties across 14 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Clark 20025
- Comanche 20033
- Douglas 20045
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greenwood 20073
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Pawnee 20145
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Rice 20159
- Rush 20165
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Wichita 20203
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHVI4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289624 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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