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§1 Plant

Paspalum urvillei Steud.

vernacular Vasey's grass — species · Poaceae


USDA
PAUR2
GBIF
2705650
Rank
species
Vasey's grass (Paspalum urvillei)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 272 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 272 Both · 0 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 272 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 10 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 20 I
Florida view state ↗ 51 I
Georgia view state ↗ 29 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 64 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 54 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 37 I
Virginia view state ↗ 6 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PAUR2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2705650 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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