Index / Search / Steinchisma hians
§1 Plant
Steinchisma hians (Elliott) Nash
vernacular gaping grass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Steinchisma
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 260 counties across 14 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 260 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Greene 05055
- Howard 05061
- Izard 05065
- Jefferson 05069
- Logan 05083
- Monroe 05095
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Pike 05109
- Polk 05113
- Prairie 05117
- Saline 05125
- Scott 05127
- Sebastian 05131
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Lucie 12111
- Suwannee 12121
- Union 12125
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Baldwin 13009
- Chatham 13051
- Clarke 13059
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Decatur 13087
- DeKalb 13089
- Dooly 13093
- Elbert 13105
- Greene 13133
- Hart 13147
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Lee 13177
- Lincoln 13181
- Lowndes 13185
- McDuffie 13189
- Miller 13201
- Taliaferro 13265
- Toombs 13279
- Wilcox 13315
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Abbeville 45001
- Aiken 45003
- Anderson 45007
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Charleston 45019
- Cherokee 45021
- Chesterfield 45025
- Colleton 45029
- Edgefield 45037
- Fairfield 45039
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenwood 45047
- Hampton 45049
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Laurens 45059
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marlboro 45069
- McCormick 45065
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- Spartanburg 45083
- York 45091
Tennessee view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/STHI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702930 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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