Index / Search / Sporobolus vaginiflorus var. vaginiflorus
§1 Plant
Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A. Gray) Alph. Wood var. vaginiflorus
vernacular poverty dropseed — variety · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Sporobolus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 467 counties across 30 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 467 counties across 30 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Clark 05019
- Cleveland 05025
- Conway 05029
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Izard 05065
- Lawrence 05075
- Little River 05081
- Marion 05089
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Sebastian 05131
- Sevier 05133
- Stone 05137
- Washington 05143
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Bond 17005
- Boone 17007
- Calhoun 17013
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Clinton 17027
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Effingham 17049
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Hardin 17069
- Henderson 17071
- Jackson 17077
- Jefferson 17081
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Livingston 17105
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Marion 17121
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Monroe 17133
- Montgomery 17135
- Morgan 17137
- Peoria 17143
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- Saline 17165
- Sangamon 17167
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- Wabash 17185
- Whiteside 17195
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Chautauqua 20019
- Cherokee 20021
- Coffey 20031
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Elk 20049
- Ellis 20051
- Franklin 20059
- Greenwood 20073
- Harper 20077
- Jackson 20085
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Labette 20099
- Linn 20107
- Lyon 20111
- Marion 20115
- Meade 20119
- Montgomery 20125
- Morris 20127
- Morton 20129
- Nemaha 20131
- Neosho 20133
- Ness 20135
- Osage 20139
- Ottawa 20143
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Washington 20201
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Boyd 21019
- Bracken 21023
- Bullitt 21029
- Caldwell 21033
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Crittenden 21055
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Franklin 21073
- Grant 21081
- Graves 21083
- Grayson 21085
- Greenup 21089
- Hardin 21093
- Hart 21099
- Hickman 21105
- Livingston 21139
- Logan 21141
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- Meade 21163
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rockcastle 21203
- Simpson 21213
- Todd 21219
- Trigg 21221
- Warren 21227
- Wayne 21231
- Wolfe 21237
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Fulton 36035
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Adams 55001
- Brown 55009
- Columbia 55021
- Crawford 55023
- Dane 55025
- Door 55029
- Dunn 55033
- Florence 55037
- Fond du Lac 55039
- Grant 55043
- Green 55045
- Green Lake 55047
- Iowa 55049
- Jackson 55053
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- La Crosse 55063
- Lafayette 55065
- Lincoln 55069
- Marathon 55073
- Marinette 55075
- Marquette 55077
- Menominee 55078
- Milwaukee 55079
- Monroe 55081
- Oconto 55083
- Pepin 55091
- Pierce 55093
- Polk 55095
- Portage 55097
- Price 55099
- Racine 55101
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Sauk 55111
- Sawyer 55113
- Shawano 55115
- Sheboygan 55117
- Trempealeau 55121
- Vernon 55123
- Walworth 55127
- Waukesha 55133
- Waupaca 55135
- Waushara 55137
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPVAV2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704768 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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