Index / Search / Sporobolus vaginiflorus var. ozarkanus

§1 Plant

Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A. Gray) Alph. Wood var. ozarkanus (Fernald) Shinners

vernacular Ozark dropseed — variety · Poaceae


USDA
SPVAO
GBIF
2704793 syn.
Rank
variety
Ozark dropseed (Sporobolus vaginiflorus var. ozarkanus)
Platephotograph · Colin Chapman-LamCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 75 counties across 7 states/territories
Legend Native · 75 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 75 counties across 7 states/territories.

Illinois view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 4 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 31 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 N
Texas view state ↗ 18 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SPVAO ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2704793 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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