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§1 Plant

Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin. var. flexuosa

vernacular wavy hairgrass — variety · Poaceae


USDA
DEFLF
GBIF
6084824 syn.
Rank
variety
wavy hairgrass (Deschampsia flexuosa var. flexuosa)
Platephotograph · Giovanni PericoCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 242 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 242 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 242 counties across 22 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 34 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 43 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 7 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DEFLF ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/6084824 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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