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§1 Plant

Sporobolus pyramidatus (Lam.) Hitchc.

vernacular Madagascar dropseed — species · Poaceae


USDA
SPPY2
GBIF
2704755
Rank
species
Madagascar dropseed (Sporobolus pyramidatus)
Platephotograph · Clifton AlbrechtCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual, Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Sporobolus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 119 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 119 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 119 counties across 13 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 8 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 2 N
Kansas view state ↗ 33 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 9 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 8 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
Texas view state ↗ 46 N
Utah view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SPPY2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2704755 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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