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§1 Plant

Dichanthelium xanthophysum (A. Gray) Freckmann

vernacular slender rosette grass — species · Poaceae


USDA
DIXA
GBIF
2702682
Rank
species
slender rosette grass (Dichanthelium xanthophysum)
Platephotograph · Samuel Brinker source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 136 counties across 12 states/territories
Legend Native · 136 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 136 counties across 12 states/territories.

Maine view state ↗ 12 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N
Michigan view state ↗ 27 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 25 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 18 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Vermont view state ↗ 7 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 20 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DIXA ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2702682 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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