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§1 Plant

Oplismenus hirtellus (L.) P. Beauv.

vernacular basketgrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
OPHI
GBIF
2705737
Rank
species
basketgrass (Oplismenus hirtellus)
Platephotograph · James BaileyCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Oplismenus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 162 counties across 8 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 0 Both · 162 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 162 counties across 8 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 9 B
Arkansas view state ↗ 12 B
Florida view state ↗ 39 B
Georgia view state ↗ 19 B
Louisiana view state ↗ 56 B
Mississippi view state ↗ 16 B
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 B
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 B

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/OPHI ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2705737 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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