Index / Search / Saccharum brevibarbe var. contortum

§1 Plant

Saccharum brevibarbe (Michx.) Pers. var. contortum (Elliott) R. Webster

vernacular sortbeard plumegrass — variety · Poaceae


USDA
SABRC3
GBIF
5677254 syn.
Rank
variety
sortbeard plumegrass (Saccharum brevibarbe var. contortum)
Platephotograph · Will McFarlandCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 284 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 284 Introduced · 0 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 284 counties across 15 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 9 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 29 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 5 N
Georgia view state ↗ 35 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 29 N
Maryland view state ↗ 4 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 18 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 56 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 39 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 N
Texas view state ↗ 7 N
Virginia view state ↗ 42 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SABRC3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5677254 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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