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§1 Plant
Cyperus rotundus L.
vernacular nutgrass — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cyperus
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 258 counties across 19 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 258 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Broward 12011
- Collier 12021
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 63 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- 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
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Dare 37055
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Greene 37079
- Harnett 37085
- Hoke 37093
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pasquotank 37139
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Scotland 37165
- Tyrrell 37177
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Anderson 45007
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Edgefield 45037
- Fairfield 45039
- Florence 45041
- Greenwood 45047
- Kershaw 45055
- Laurens 45059
- Lee 45061
- Marlboro 45069
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Oconee 45073
- Orangeburg 45075
- Pickens 45077
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- Spartanburg 45083
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
- York 45091
Tennessee view state ↗ 9 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CYRO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2714818 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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