Index / Search / Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis
§1 Plant
Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth ssp. fascicularis (Lam.) N. Snow
vernacular bearded sprangletop — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Leptochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 372 counties across 35 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -43 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 15–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–7.5
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 3.3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 538,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 372 counties across 35 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Collier 12021
- Franklin 12037
- Glades 12043
- Hendry 12051
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Wakulla 12129
Illinois view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Cook 17031
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Fayette 17051
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- Menard 17129
- Monroe 17133
- Morgan 17137
- Moultrie 17139
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Randolph 17157
- Richland 17159
- Scott 17171
- Shelby 17173
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Washington 17189
- Will 17197
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 57 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Brown 20013
- Chase 20017
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Coffey 20031
- Cowley 20035
- Dickinson 20041
- Doniphan 20043
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Geary 20061
- Gove 20063
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Greenwood 20073
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Jackson 20085
- Jewell 20089
- Johnson 20091
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Logan 20109
- Lyon 20111
- Marshall 20117
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Neosho 20133
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Saline 20169
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Stafford 20185
- Sumner 20191
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
- Woodson 20207
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- East Carroll 22035
- Franklin 22041
- Jefferson 22051
- LaSalle 22059
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Plaquemines 22075
- Red River 22081
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Atchison 29005
- Barry 29009
- Boone 29019
- Buchanan 29021
- Butler 29023
- Camden 29029
- Carroll 29033
- Chariton 29041
- Clay 29047
- Clinton 29049
- Cole 29051
- Cooper 29053
- Dade 29057
- Dunklin 29069
- Holt 29087
- Howard 29089
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Johnson 29101
- Laclede 29105
- Lafayette 29107
- Lawrence 29109
- Lincoln 29113
- Livingston 29117
- Madison 29123
- Marion 29127
- Mississippi 29133
- Moniteau 29135
- Monroe 29137
- New Madrid 29143
- Pemiscot 29155
- Pettis 29159
- Pike 29163
- Platte 29165
- Ralls 29173
- Randolph 29175
- Ray 29177
- Saline 29195
- Scott 29201
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stoddard 29207
Montana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Cass 31025
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Clay 31035
- Colfax 31037
- Cuming 31039
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dawson 31047
- Dixon 31051
- Dodge 31053
- Garden 31069
- Greeley 31077
- Hall 31079
- Harlan 31083
- Holt 31089
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Lancaster 31109
- Lincoln 31111
- Merrick 31121
- Nuckolls 31129
- Red Willow 31145
- Richardson 31147
- Saunders 31155
- Seward 31159
- Sheridan 31161
- Thomas 31171
- Webster 31181
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LEFUF ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8257546 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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