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§1 Plant

Urochloa mutica (Forssk.) T.Q. Nguyen

vernacular para grass — species · Poaceae

USDA
URMU
GBIF
2705848
Rank
species
para grass (Urochloa mutica)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Urochloa
§2a

Native status, by region

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

County-level range

· 22 counties across 4 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 22 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation specs · USDA

Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.

§3a

Tolerances

Drought
Medium
Shade
Medium
Moisture use
Medium
Fire
Medium
Salinity
Low
Anaerobic
Medium
CaCO₃
Medium
Hedging
Medium
§3b

Climate & soil

Cold tolerance
17 °F minimum
Frost-free days
365 min.
Precipitation
30–200 in/yr
pH range
5.3–8.7
Root depth
36 in min.
Fertility need
Medium
Soil texture
coarse, medium, fine
§3c

Form & growth

Growth form
Stoloniferous
Growth rate
Rapid
Lifespan
Long
Mature height
3 ft
Foliage texture
Coarse
Foliage colour
Green
Porosity (summer)
Dense
Porosity (winter)
Dense
Flower colour
Purple
Fruit colour
Brown
Fire resistant
No
N fixation
None
Toxicity
None
§3d

Reproduction

Bloom period
Indeterminate
Seed abundance
Low
Seed begins
Year Round
Seed ends
Year Round
Spread rate
Slow
Stratify
No
Seeds / lb
425,000
Propagation
seed, container, sprigs
§3e

Use & availability

Commercial availability
Routinely Available
Nursery stock
No
Browse palatability
Medium
Graze palatability
High
Palatable, human
No
Protein potential
Medium
Lumber
No
Christmas tree
No

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 22 counties across 4 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 15 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 5 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/URMU ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2705848 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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