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§1 Plant

Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) W.D. Clayton

vernacular itchgrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
ROCO6
GBIF
2704075
Rank
species
itchgrass (Rottboellia cochinchinensis)
Platephotograph · 小铖/SmalltownCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Rottboellia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 52 counties across 5 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 52 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 52 counties across 5 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ROCO6 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2704075 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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