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§1 Plant

Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Schreb. ex Muhl.

vernacular smooth crabgrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
DIIS
GBIF
5290003
Rank
species
smooth crabgrass (Digitaria ischaemum)
Platephotograph · urij777CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Digitaria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 480 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 480 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 480 counties across 22 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 I
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 43 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 2 I
Georgia view state ↗ 17 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 58 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 45 I
Maine view state ↗ 14 I
Maryland view state ↗ 2 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 I
Montana view state ↗ 7 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 I
New York view state ↗ 49 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 34 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 57 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I
Virginia view state ↗ 80 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DIIS ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5290003 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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