Paspalum blodgettiiChapm.

Blodgett's crowngrass

WFO wfo-0000887348 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. a Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-04 / obs. 133890761
Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. b Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87439403
Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. c Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157044995
Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. d Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157045026
Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. e Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157045048
Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. f Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133890641
Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. g Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87439361
Paspalum blodgettii, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. h Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87439382

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
662301
Filed as
Paspalum blodgettii Chapm.
Det. by
L. J. Catasús Guerra 2006-01-01
Collected
Fr. León 1914-09-24
Origin
CU
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Paspalum blodgettii is native: Florida, Mexico Southeast, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Panamá, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is. FloridaMexico SoutheastBelizeCubaDominican RepublicGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaPanamáPuerto Rico BahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.Turks-Caicos Is.
Native distribution of Paspalum blodgettii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Cayman Is. CAY
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT

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.

Also published as 3 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.

  • Paspalum gracillimum Nash
  • Paspalum simpsonii Nash
  • Paspalum yucatanum Chase

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.