Index / Search / Leptochloa fusca ssp. uninervia

§1 Plant

Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth ssp. uninervia (J. Presl) N. Snow

vernacular Mexican sprangletop — subspecies · Poaceae


USDA
LEFUU
GBIF
8369366 syn.
Rank
subspecies
Mexican sprangletop (Leptochloa fusca ssp. uninervia)
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

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b

County-level range

· 113 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 113 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 113 counties across 15 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 N
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N
Florida view state ↗ 19 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 39 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N
Texas view state ↗ 30 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LEFUU ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8369366 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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