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§1 Plant
Leptochloa scabra Nees
vernacular rough sprangletop — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Leptochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 19 counties across 1 state§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 19 counties across 1 state.
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Caldwell 22021
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LESC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703881 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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