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§1 Plant
Triplasis americana P. Beauv.
vernacular perennial sandgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Triplasis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 84 counties across 7 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 84 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Osceola 12097
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sumter 12119
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Edgefield 45037
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- Marlboro 45069
- Orangeburg 45075
- Saluda 45081
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRAM7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2706385 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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