Grass or grass-like · Poaceae
Fowl mannagrass
Glyceria striata
Fowl mannagrass is recorded as native to 49 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,578 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Key facts · USDA PLANTS
Fowl mannagrass at a glance
- Native in
- 1,578 counties, across 49 states and territories
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 3b PLANTS minimum temperature −35°F
- Mature height
- 5.7 ft PLANTS mature height
- Light and water
- Tolerates shade Medium water use
Estimated cold hardiness: zone 3b. PLANTS gives a minimum temperature of −35°F; zone 3b winters bottom out at −35°F, the coldest half-zone that stays within that limit.
Fowl mannagrass is recorded as native to 49 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,578 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Counties where it is native
The 15 counties with the most ZIP codes among the 1,578 where it is listed.
Native counties by state
- Alabama 19 counties
- Alaska 5 counties
- Arizona 8 counties
- Arkansas 22 counties
- California 30 counties
- Colorado 33 counties
- Connecticut statewide record
- Delaware 2 counties
- District of Columbia 1 county
- Florida 3 counties
- Georgia 20 counties
- Idaho 31 counties
- Illinois 102 counties
- Indiana 84 counties
- Iowa 28 counties
- Kansas 38 counties
- Kentucky 75 counties
- Louisiana 2 counties
- Maine 15 counties
- Massachusetts 14 counties
- Michigan 70 counties
- Minnesota 74 counties
- Mississippi 6 counties
- Missouri 78 counties
- Montana 3 counties
- Nebraska 28 counties
- Nevada 11 counties
- New Hampshire 10 counties
- New Jersey 19 counties
- New Mexico 15 counties
- New York 61 counties
- North Carolina 68 counties
- North Dakota 24 counties
- Ohio 80 counties
- Oklahoma 8 counties
- Oregon 29 counties
- Pennsylvania 66 counties
- Rhode Island 4 counties
- South Carolina 26 counties
- South Dakota 12 counties
- Tennessee 61 counties
- Texas 9 counties
- Utah 28 counties
- Vermont 13 counties
- Virginia 94 counties
- Washington 27 counties
- West Virginia 36 counties
- Wisconsin 66 counties
- Wyoming 20 counties
Growing traits
Values from the PLANTS characteristics record. “Not recorded” means PLANTS has no value; nothing here is estimated except the zone.
Growth
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 5.7 ft
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Shape
- Semi-Erect
- Lifespan
- Short
- Active growth period
- Spring
Light and water
- Shade tolerance
- Tolerant (tolerates shade)
- Moisture use
- Medium water use
- Drought tolerance
- Low
- Tolerance of waterlogged soil
- High
- Precipitation range
- 10 to 60 in per year
Soil
- Soil textures
- Medium and fine
- pH range
- 4 to 8
- Lime (CaCO₃) tolerance
- Medium
- Salinity tolerance
- None
- Fertility requirement
- Medium
- Minimum root depth
- 4 in
Climate
- Minimum temperature
- −35°F
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 3b and warmer
- Minimum frost-free days
- 100
- Fire tolerance
- Low
Flowers, leaves and fruit
- Flower color
- Green
- Showy flowers
- No
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Foliage color
- Green
- Showy in fall
- No
- Keeps leaves
- No
- Fruit color
- Red
Other
- Toxicity
- None
- Nitrogen fixation
- None
- Nursery availability
- Routinely Available
- Family
- Poaceae
- PLANTS symbol
- GLST
Source & data date
- Source
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
- Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
- USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
- Citation
- USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
- Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
- Data date
- Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
- Scope
- Glyceria striata (PLANTS symbol GLST).
- Method
- A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources