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§1 Plant
Digitaria patens (Swallen) Henr.
vernacular Texas cottontop — species · Poaceae
Platephotograph · licensed media from USDA PLANTS images without ownerCC BY-NC-SA
source · iNaturalist ↗
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Digitaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 14 counties across 1 state§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 14 counties across 1 state.
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DIPA6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289990 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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