Index / Search / Sporobolus giganteus
§1 Plant
Sporobolus giganteus Nash
vernacular giant dropseed — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Sporobolus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 81 counties across 7 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 81 counties across 7 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- Sandoval 35043
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Bailey 48017
- Carson 48065
- Cochran 48079
- Crane 48103
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Fannin 48147
- Gaines 48165
- Garza 48169
- Hall 48191
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hill 48217
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Kent 48263
- Lamb 48279
- Midland 48329
- Mitchell 48335
- Motley 48345
- Oldham 48359
- Parmer 48369
- Potter 48375
- Sherman 48421
- Ward 48475
- Winkler 48495
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPGI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704792 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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