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§1 Plant

Dichanthelium laxiflorum (Lam.) Gould

vernacular openflower rosette grass — species · Poaceae


USDA
DILA9
GBIF
2702596
Rank
species
openflower rosette grass (Dichanthelium laxiflorum)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 533 counties across 18 states/territories
Legend Native · 533 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 533 counties across 18 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 17 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 53 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 43 N
Georgia view state ↗ 33 N
Illinois view state ↗ 20 N
Indiana view state ↗ 11 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 43 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 49 N
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 25 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 77 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 36 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 59 N
Virginia view state ↗ 53 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 9 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DILA9 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2702596 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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