Index / Search / Leptochloa panicoides
§1 Plant
Leptochloa panicoides (J. Presl) Hitchc.
vernacular Amazon sprangletop — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Leptochloa
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
County-level range
· 101 counties across 12 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 101 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LEPA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703876 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T10:50:45Z