Index / Search / Leptochloa dubia
§1 Plant
Leptochloa dubia (Kunth) Nees
vernacular green sprangletop — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Leptochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 109 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 210 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–24 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 538,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 109 counties across 7 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 72 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bandera 48019
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Comal 48091
- Concho 48095
- Culberson 48109
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Fannin 48147
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hood 48221
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jack 48237
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Wells 48249
- Johnson 48251
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McMullen 48311
- Nueces 48355
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- Refugio 48391
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Shackelford 48417
- Starr 48427
- Sterling 48431
- Stonewall 48433
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Williamson 48491
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LEDU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7549853 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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