Index / Search / Eremochloa ophiuroides
§1 Plant
Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.
vernacular centipede grass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Eremochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 91 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 12 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 34–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 0.4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 568,480
- Propagation
- sod, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 91 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Okaloosa 12091
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/EROP ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704348 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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