Index / Search / Pappophorum vaginatum
§1 Plant
Pappophorum vaginatum Buckley
vernacular whiplash pappusgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Pappophorum
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 37 counties across 5 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 37 counties across 5 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brooks 48047
- Cameron 48061
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Frio 48163
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- King 48269
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Nueces 48355
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Starr 48427
- Terrell 48443
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PAVA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705172 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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