Index / Search / Paspalum fluitans
§1 Plant
Paspalum fluitans (Elliott) Kunth
vernacular horsetail paspalum — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Paspalum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 291 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 190 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–64 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.6
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 2.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 163,560
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 291 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 18 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Crawford 17033
- Fulton 17057
- Gallatin 17059
- Henderson 17071
- Jackson 17077
- Jersey 17083
- Johnson 17087
- Knox 17095
- Lawrence 17101
- Livingston 17105
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- Perry 17145
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Schuyler 17169
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Washington 17189
- White 17193
Indiana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Ballard 21007
- Bath 21011
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carlisle 21039
- Carroll 21041
- Clark 21049
- Crittenden 21055
- Daviess 21059
- Edmonson 21061
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Fulton 21075
- Graves 21083
- Hardin 21093
- Henderson 21101
- Kenton 21117
- Livingston 21139
- Lyon 21143
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Ohio 21183
- Perry 21193
- Rowan 21205
- Trigg 21221
- Union 21225
- Wayne 21231
- Whitley 21235
Louisiana view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Benton 29015
- Butler 29023
- Camden 29029
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Chariton 29041
- Cole 29051
- Dunklin 29069
- Franklin 29071
- Henry 29083
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Johnson 29101
- Laclede 29105
- Lincoln 29113
- Miller 29131
- Mississippi 29133
- Monroe 29137
- New Madrid 29143
- Pemiscot 29155
- Perry 29157
- Pike 29163
- Reynolds 29179
- Scott 29201
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Stoddard 29207
- Wayne 29223
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PAFL5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705655 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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