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§1 Plant

Andropogon gyrans Ashe

vernacular Elliott's bluestem — species · Poaceae


USDA
ANGY2
GBIF
2706106
Rank
species
Elliott's bluestem (Andropogon gyrans)
Platephotograph · Jay HornCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Andropogon
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 367 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 367 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 367 counties across 22 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 44 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 24 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 37 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 25 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 23 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 7 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 30 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 24 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 45 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ANGY2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2706106 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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