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§1 Plant

Digitaria violascens Link

vernacular violet crabgrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
DIVI2
GBIF
5289995
Rank
species
violet crabgrass (Digitaria violascens)
Platephotograph · 傻子CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 113 counties across 12 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 113 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 113 counties across 12 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 24 I
Florida view state ↗ 10 I
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 36 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 13 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 I
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DIVI2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5289995 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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