Common names:

• maidencane  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• pifine grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage
• Environmental: erosion control

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [New Jersey]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama (s.), Arkansas (e.), Delaware, Florida, Georgia (s.e.), Louisiana, Maryland (s.e.), North Carolina (e.), South Carolina, Tennessee (c.), Virginia (e.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

Southern America

• BRAZIL: Brazil

References:

1. Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: Revised version of AH 170
2. Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland
3. Chester, E. W. et al. 1993-1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
4. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
5. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
6. Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas
7. Hanson, A. A. 1972. Grass varieties in the United States
8. Hitchcock, A. S. 1971. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. 2:704, 917.
9. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
10. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
11. Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
12. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
13. Thomas, R. D. & C. M. Allen. 1993-. Atlas of the vascular flora of Louisiana.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=103512. Accessed 1 July 2024.