Index / Search / Sphenopholis pensylvanica
§1 Plant
Sphenopholis pensylvanica (L.) Hitchc.
vernacular swamp wedgescale — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Sphenopholis
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 250 counties across 22 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 250 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Alleghany 37005
- Ashe 37009
- Avery 37011
- Beaufort 37013
- Brunswick 37019
- Caswell 37033
- Cherokee 37039
- Chowan 37041
- Clay 37043
- Craven 37049
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Gates 37073
- Graham 37075
- Haywood 37087
- Henderson 37089
- Hertford 37091
- Hyde 37095
- Jackson 37099
- Lenoir 37107
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Polk 37149
- Robeson 37155
- Rockingham 37157
- Rowan 37159
- Sampson 37163
- Stokes 37169
- Surry 37171
- Swain 37173
- Tyrrell 37177
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Yancey 37199
Ohio view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Lycoming 42081
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Warren 42123
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bland 51021
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Clarke 51043
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Greene 51079
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Highland 51091
- Isle of Wight 51093
- King and Queen 51097
- Lancaster 51103
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Northumberland 51133
- Orange 51137
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Southampton 51175
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPPE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703353 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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