Index / Search / Vulpia elliotea
§1 Plant
Vulpia elliotea (Raf.) Fernald
vernacular squirreltail fescue — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Vulpia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 105 counties across 16 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 105 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 19 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VUEL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702730 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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