Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 49 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | ALA | NORTHERN AMERICA |
| Arizona | ARI | |
| Arkansas | ARK | |
| California | CAL | |
| Colorado | COL | |
| Connecticut | CNT | |
| Delaware | DEL | |
| District of Columbia | WDC | |
| Florida | FLA | |
| Georgia | GEO | |
| Illinois | ILL | |
| Indiana | INI | |
| Iowa | IOW | |
| Kansas | KAN | |
| Kentucky | KTY | |
| Louisiana | LOU | |
| Maine | MAI | |
| Maryland | MRY | |
| Massachusetts | MAS | |
| Mexico Central | MXC | |
| Mexico Gulf | MXG | |
| Mexico Northeast | MXE | |
| Michigan | MIC | |
| Minnesota | MIN | |
| Mississippi | MSI | |
| Missouri | MSO | |
| Nebraska | NEB | |
| New Hampshire | NWH | |
| New Jersey | NWJ | |
| New York | NWY | |
| North Carolina | NCA | |
| Ohio | OHI | |
| Oklahoma | OKL | |
| Ontario | ONT | |
| Pennsylvania | PEN | |
| Rhode I. | RHO | |
| South Carolina | SCA | |
| South Dakota | SDA | |
| Tennessee | TEN | |
| Texas | TEX | |
| Utah | UTA | |
| Vermont | VER | |
| Virginia | VRG | |
| West Virginia | WVA | |
| Wisconsin | WIS | |
| Argentina Northeast | AGE | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
| Argentina Northwest | AGW | |
| Brazil South | BZS | |
| Uruguay | URU |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 561 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -10.0 °C | -4.2 °C | 4.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 25.4 °C | 28.9 °C | 32.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 878 mm | 1,144 mm | 1,424 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 94 mm | 234 mm | 304 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 561 research-grade observations of Muhlenbergia schreberi that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 19 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Agrostis alba subsp. pauciflora (Schrad.) K.Richt.
- Agrostis apetala Bosc ex Trin.
- Agrostis oligantha Roem. & Schult.
- Agrostis pauciflora Pursh
- Agrostis pauciflora Schrad.
- Anthipsimus gonopodos Raf.
- Cynodon diffusus (Willd.) Raspail
- Dilepyrum diffusum (Willd.) P.Beauv.
- Dilepyrum minutiflorum Michx.
- Dilepyrum multiflorum P.Beauv.
- Muhlenbergia botterii E.Fourn.
- Muhlenbergia diffusa Willd.
- Muhlenbergia minutiflora (Michx.) Hitchc.
- Muhlenbergia palustris Scribn.
- Muhlenbergia schreberi subsp. palustris (Scribn.) Scribn.
- Muhlenbergia schreberi subsp. schreberi
- Muhlenbergia schreberi var. palustris (Scribn.) Scribn.
- Muhlenbergia tenuiflora var. pauciflora Scribn.
- Polypogon pauciflorus Spreng.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.