Index / Search / Microstegium vimineum
§1 Plant
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus
vernacular Nepalese browntop — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Microstegium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 322 counties across 22 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 322 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 55 I ▾
- Barren 21009
- Bath 21011
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Boyd 21019
- Bracken 21023
- Breckinridge 21027
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carter 21043
- Clark 21049
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Fulton 21075
- Gallatin 21077
- Graves 21083
- Greenup 21089
- Hardin 21093
- Harlan 21095
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Jackson 21109
- Jessamine 21113
- Johnson 21115
- Knott 21119
- Larue 21123
- Laurel 21125
- Lawrence 21127
- Lee 21129
- Letcher 21133
- Lewis 21135
- Lincoln 21137
- Livingston 21139
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Magoffin 21153
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Menifee 21165
- Montgomery 21173
- Nicholas 21181
- Ohio 21183
- Owsley 21189
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Rockcastle 21203
- Trigg 21221
- Washington 21229
- Wayne 21231
- Whitley 21235
- Wolfe 21237
- Woodford 21239
Louisiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 11 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Avery 37011
- Bertie 37015
- Caldwell 37027
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Chowan 37041
- Davidson 37057
- Davie 37059
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Gates 37073
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Haywood 37087
- Iredell 37097
- Lincoln 37109
- Madison 37115
- Martin 37117
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Mitchell 37121
- Moore 37125
- Northampton 37131
- Pasquotank 37139
- Polk 37149
- Rowan 37159
- Stokes 37169
- Union 37179
- Washington 37187
- Yadkin 37197
- Yancey 37199
Ohio view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Chester 42029
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Juniata 42067
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 38 I ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Blount 47009
- Bradley 47011
- Cannon 47015
- Carter 47019
- Cheatham 47021
- Cocke 47029
- Cumberland 47035
- Davidson 47037
- Decatur 47039
- Franklin 47051
- Grainger 47057
- Grundy 47061
- Hamilton 47065
- Hardin 47071
- Haywood 47075
- Henry 47079
- Houston 47083
- Knox 47093
- Lewis 47101
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- Monroe 47123
- Montgomery 47125
- Morgan 47129
- Polk 47139
- Roane 47145
- Rutherford 47149
- Sevier 47155
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Sullivan 47163
- Tipton 47167
- Unicoi 47171
- Washington 47179
- White 47185
- Williamson 47187
Virginia view state ↗ 74 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buchanan 51027
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Clarke 51043
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dickenson 51051
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Henry 51089
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Nottoway 51135
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wise 51195
- Wythe 51197
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MIVI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289808 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T08:39:52Z