Index / Search / Gymnopogon brevifolius
§1 Plant
Gymnopogon brevifolius Trin.
vernacular shortleaf skeletongrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Gymnopogon
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 119 counties across 14 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 119 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- East Feliciana 22037
- Grant 22043
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Rapides 22079
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Jones 37103
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Tyrrell 37177
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
South Carolina view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GYBR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5290124 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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