Andropogon L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1045 (1753), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropics & Subtropics to N. America.

Distribution

Doubtfully present in:

Réunion

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Congo, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Mali, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Hawaii, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Western Australia

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Clayton in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37: t. 3644 (1967).
  • F.T.A. 9: 208 (1919)
  • Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 468 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl. 1045 (1763)

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Clayton in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 37: t. 3644 (1967).
  • Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 468 (1754).
  • Heath in Calyx 4(2): 52 (1994).
  • J.G. Anderson in Bothalia 9: 5 (1966).
  • Roberty in Boissiera 9: 267–278 (1960).
  • Sp. Pl.: 1045 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Clayton in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37, t. 3644 (1967)
  • J.G. Anders. in Bothalia 9: 5 (1966)
  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 468 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 1045 (1753)

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0