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§1 Plant

Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. scoparium

vernacular little bluestem — variety · Poaceae


USDA
SCSCS
GBIF
6431095
Rank
variety
little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium var. scoparium)
Platephotograph · Scott E SeversCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Schizachyrium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 1,405 counties across 40 states/territories
Legend Native · 1405 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 1,405 counties across 40 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 19 N
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 50 N
Colorado view state ↗ 25 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N
Illinois view state ↗ 92 N
Indiana view state ↗ 55 N
Iowa view state ↗ 48 N
Kansas view state ↗ 105 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 59 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 44 N
Maine view state ↗ 12 N
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
Michigan view state ↗ 46 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 68 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N
Missouri view state ↗ 76 N
Montana view state ↗ 4 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 50 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 32 N
New York view state ↗ 42 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 80 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 40 N
Ohio view state ↗ 69 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 41 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 51 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 40 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 29 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N
Texas view state ↗ 2 N
Vermont view state ↗ 7 N
Virginia view state ↗ 90 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 25 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 33 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SCSCS ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/6431095 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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