Index / Search / Saccharum alopecuroides
§1 Plant
Saccharum alopecuroides (L.) Nutt.
vernacular silver plumegrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Saccharum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 307 counties across 20 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 307 counties across 20 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Carroll 05015
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Conway 05029
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Lonoke 05085
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Newton 05101
- Pope 05115
- Saline 05125
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Allen 21003
- Barren 21009
- Bell 21013
- Breckinridge 21027
- Bullitt 21029
- Butler 21031
- Caldwell 21033
- Calloway 21035
- Carlisle 21039
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Graves 21083
- Green 21087
- Hancock 21091
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Henry 21103
- Hopkins 21107
- Larue 21123
- Laurel 21125
- Lawrence 21127
- Lee 21129
- Lewis 21135
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marshall 21157
- Martin 21159
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Meade 21163
- Menifee 21165
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Ohio 21183
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Todd 21219
- Trigg 21221
- Warren 21227
- Wayne 21231
- Whitley 21235
- Wolfe 21237
Louisiana view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 20 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Bertie 37015
- Caldwell 37027
- Caswell 37033
- Catawba 37035
- Cleveland 37045
- Davidson 37057
- Davie 37059
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Granville 37077
- Harnett 37085
- Iredell 37097
- Lee 37105
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- McDowell 37111
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Moore 37125
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Polk 37149
- Rowan 37159
- Scotland 37165
- Stokes 37169
- Transylvania 37175
- Union 37179
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Wilkes 37193
- Yadkin 37197
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Benton 47005
- Bledsoe 47007
- Blount 47009
- Bradley 47011
- Carroll 47017
- Cheatham 47021
- Cocke 47029
- Coffee 47031
- Cumberland 47035
- Davidson 47037
- DeKalb 47041
- Dickson 47043
- Franklin 47051
- Grundy 47061
- Hamilton 47065
- Hardeman 47069
- Hardin 47071
- Hawkins 47073
- Haywood 47075
- Henderson 47077
- Henry 47079
- Hickman 47081
- Houston 47083
- Knox 47093
- Macon 47111
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- McNairy 47109
- Meigs 47121
- Montgomery 47125
- Morgan 47129
- Overton 47133
- Perry 47135
- Polk 47139
- Putnam 47141
- Rhea 47143
- Roane 47145
- Robertson 47147
- Sequatchie 47153
- Sevier 47155
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Sumner 47165
- Tipton 47167
- Union 47173
- Van Buren 47175
- Williamson 47187
Virginia view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Bedford 51019
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Cumberland 51049
- Dickenson 51051
- Fairfax 51059
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Goochland 51075
- Greene 51079
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Henry 51089
- King George 51099
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Nelson 51125
- Northampton 51131
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Richmond 51159
- Surry 51181
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SAAL21 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289881 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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