Sporobolus cynosuroides(L.) P.M.Peterson & Saarela

WFO wfo-0001341455 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. a Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-21 / obs. 183961948
Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by Tom Field
fig. b Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98540959
Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. c Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32921686
Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. d Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25035412
Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by NC Wetlands
fig. e NC Wetlands, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65281224
Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by NC Wetlands
fig. f NC Wetlands, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63652033
Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by NC Wetlands
fig. g NC Wetlands, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65193814
Sporobolus cynosuroides, photographed by botanygirl
fig. h botanygirl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2262589

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Sporobolus cynosuroides is native: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Texas, Virginia AlabamaConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMarylandMassachusettsMexico NortheastMississippiNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTexasVirginia DelawareDistrict of ColumbiaRhode I.
Native distribution of Sporobolus cynosuroides, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
District of Columbia WDC
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mississippi MSI
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Pennsylvania PEN
Rhode I. RHO
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG

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 12 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.

  • Cynodon cynosuroides (L.) Raspail
  • Dactylis cynosuroides L.
  • Limnetis cynosuroides (L.) Rich.
  • Limnetis polystachya (Michx.) Rich.
  • Paspalum cynosuroides (L.) Brot.
  • Poa lagopoides Steud.
  • Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth
  • Spartina cynosuroides var. polystachya (Michx.) Beal
  • Spartina polystachya (Michx.) Willd.
  • Trachynotia cynosuroides (L.) Michx.
  • Trachynotia polystachya Michx.
  • Triodia cynosuroides (L.) Spreng.

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. 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.