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§1 Plant

Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth

vernacular Malabar sprangletop — species · Poaceae


USDA
LEFU21
GBIF
8010581 syn.
Rank
species
Malabar sprangletop (Leptochloa fusca)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual, Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Leptochloa
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 403 counties across 34 states/territories
Legend Native · 403 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 403 counties across 34 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 5 N
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 31 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 38 N
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N
Iowa view state ↗ 10 N
Kansas view state ↗ 57 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 45 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 9 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N
Missouri view state ↗ 45 N
Montana view state ↗ 1 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 31 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N
New York view state ↗ 13 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 13 N
Ohio view state ↗ 4 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 11 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 9 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LEFU21 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8010581 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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