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§1 Plant

Diarrhena americana P. Beauv.

vernacular American beakgrain — species · Poaceae


USDA
DIAM
GBIF
2703856
Rank
species
American beakgrain (Diarrhena americana)
Platephotograph · Jesse LincolnCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Diarrhena
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 172 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 172 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 172 counties across 10 states/territories.

Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N
Indiana view state ↗ 47 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 54 N
Michigan view state ↗ 5 N
Missouri view state ↗ 6 N
Ohio view state ↗ 17 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 21 N
Virginia view state ↗ 12 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 4 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/DIAM ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2703856 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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