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§1 Plant
Panicum repens L.
vernacular torpedo grass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Panicum
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Native
§2b
County-level range
· 83 counties across 6 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 83 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Collier 12021
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafourche 22057
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PARE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705093 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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