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§1 Plant
Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.
vernacular Egyptian grass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Dactyloctenium
§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
· 178 counties across 12 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 178 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 50 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- 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
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Baker 13007
- Chatham 13051
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Echols 13101
- Elbert 13105
- Grady 13131
- Henry 13151
- Irwin 13155
- Jasper 13159
- Jones 13169
- Lee 13177
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- Madison 13195
- McDuffie 13189
- Meriwether 13199
- Miller 13201
- Morgan 13211
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Peach 13225
- Randolph 13243
- Spalding 13255
- Taylor 13269
- Tift 13277
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 44 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 3 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Anson 37007
- Bladen 37017
- Carteret 37031
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Duplin 37061
- Durham 37063
- Franklin 37069
- Hoke 37093
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Martin 37117
- Montgomery 37123
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DAAE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2706188 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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