Copyright by: USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. (in the public domain)
Family: Poaceae
Group: Monocot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Southern United States (peninsular Florida, Texas), the West Indies and Mexico.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Not listed
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Presumed Extirpated or Extinct in the Wild
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Presumed Extirpated
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as presumed extirpated in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 82-83) based on several collections from 1838 to 1903 from Key West, Key Largo, the mouth of the Lostmans River in what is now Everglades National Park, and Buena Vista, just north of present day Miami. No new records are known.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Not Cultivated
Comments: This species is apparently extirpated in peninsular Florida (Gann et al. 2002). See also IRC’s report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015, pp 147-149).
Synonyms: Homalocenchrus monandrus.
