Index / Search / Dichanthelium ovale
§1 Plant
Dichanthelium ovale (Elliott) Gould & C.A. Clark
vernacular eggleaf rosette grass — species · Poaceae
§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
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 142 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–6.5
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1.7 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 320,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 142 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Calhoun 13037
- Chatham 13051
- Clarke 13059
- Cobb 13067
- Columbia 13073
- Dade 13083
- Elbert 13105
- Emanuel 13107
- Glascock 13125
- Harris 13145
- Jackson 13157
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Mitchell 13205
- Morgan 13211
- Peach 13225
- Rockdale 13247
- Screven 13251
- Tattnall 13267
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Turner 13287
- Walker 13295
- Wheeler 13309
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Claiborne 22027
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Natchitoches 22069
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 10 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DIOV ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702681 ↗Record version
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