Index / Search / Melica aristata
§1 Plant
Melica aristata Thurb. ex Bol.
vernacular bearded melicgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Melica
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 31 counties across 5 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 31 counties across 5 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- San Bernardino 06071
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MEAR3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703099 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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