Sweet Tanglehead

Heteropogon melanocarpus

Native to FloridaInvasive · FISC Category II

Invasive — FISC Category II. The Florida Invasive Species Council lists this plant as increasing in abundance or frequency, though not yet altering Florida plant communities to the extent of Category I species. Please don't plant it; if it's on your land, consider removing it. About the FISC list

Sweet Tanglehead (Heteropogon melanocarpus) — Photo: (c) Ryan Fessenden, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ryan Fessenden · CC BY-NC 4.0 · source

Where it grows in Florida

Panhandle North CentralSouthKeys

Panhandle: Jefferson
North: Alachua, Gilchrist, Levy, Madison, St. Johns
Central: Citrus, Hernando, Polk, Volusia

10 of 67 counties, from research-grade iNaturalist observations. They show where people have photographed it, not every place it grows — absence here isn't proof it's absent.

More in Heteropogon

Tanglehead

Heteropogon contortus

Poaceae

IntroducedInvasive II

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