Index / Search / Sacciolepis striata
§1 Plant
Sacciolepis striata (L.) Nash
vernacular American cupscale — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Sacciolepis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 222 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 22–79 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.3
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Purple
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 400,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, sod
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 222 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Madison 22065
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- West Feliciana 22125
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Carteret 37031
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Craven 37049
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Forsyth 37067
- Greene 37079
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Lenoir 37107
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Perquimans 37143
- Polk 37149
- Robeson 37155
- Tyrrell 37177
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
South Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Clarendon 45027
- Dorchester 45035
- Georgetown 45043
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lexington 45063
- Marlboro 45069
- Oconee 45073
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Bastrop 48021
- Bowie 48037
- Burleson 48051
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Gonzales 48177
- Guadalupe 48187
- Harris 48201
- Houston 48225
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Lamar 48277
- Leon 48289
- Marion 48315
- Montgomery 48339
- Newton 48351
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- Smith 48423
- Tyler 48457
- Upshur 48459
- Walker 48471
- Wood 48499
Virginia view state ↗ 14 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SAST ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703628 ↗Record version
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