Index / Search / Gymnopogon ambiguus
§1 Plant
Gymnopogon ambiguus (Michx.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
vernacular bearded skeletongrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Gymnopogon
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 329 counties across 22 states/territories§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 329 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Carroll 05015
- Conway 05029
- Crawford 05033
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Miller 05091
- Nevada 05099
- Newton 05101
- Ouachita 05103
- Pope 05115
- Saline 05125
- Sharp 05135
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Citrus 12017
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Butler 29023
- Carroll 29033
- Cedar 29039
- Crawford 29055
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Howell 29091
- Jasper 29097
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Ozark 29153
- Polk 29167
- Scott 29201
- Shannon 29203
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stoddard 29207
- Taney 29213
- Vernon 29217
- Washington 29221
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 56 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Cabarrus 37025
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Chowan 37041
- Cleveland 37045
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Davie 37059
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Henderson 37089
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Iredell 37097
- Johnston 37101
- Lenoir 37107
- Lincoln 37109
- Martin 37117
- McDowell 37111
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Montgomery 37123
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Person 37145
- Pitt 37147
- Randolph 37151
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Rockingham 37157
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stokes 37169
- Union 37179
- Vance 37181
- Warren 37185
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilkes 37193
- Wilson 37195
- Yadkin 37197
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Abbeville 45001
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Anderson 45007
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Cherokee 45021
- Chesterfield 45025
- Clarendon 45027
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Fairfield 45039
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenwood 45047
- Hampton 45049
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marlboro 45069
- McCormick 45065
- Oconee 45073
- Orangeburg 45075
- Pickens 45077
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
- York 45091
Tennessee view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Appomattox 51011
- Bedford 51019
- Brunswick 51025
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Fairfax 51059
- Fluvanna 51065
- Halifax 51083
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King William 51101
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Nottoway 51135
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Rockingham 51165
- Southampton 51175
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Warren 51187
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GYAM ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5290120 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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