{"assessment":{"band":"Not native","fit_score":null,"native_basis":"not_native","rarity_adjustment":null,"rarity_policy":"Conservation status is displayed separately and never changes ecological scores, including when unranked.","reason":"Reported non-native to Georgia.","reference":"NC native reference cohort, method 0.6.4; not a Georgia percentile","score":null,"scoring_inputs":{"harm_penalty":0,"invasive":false,"invasive_rank":null,"native":false,"state_rank":""},"status":"not_native","version":"shared-0.6.5"},"condition_evidence":{"light":{"evidence_id":"fact:9cb70e67535196b8b13a0b2cad68668ab748331802aae1df15232081981578f4","levels":[2,3,4],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-1","range":[2,4],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_light_categories","source_label":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emountainworks.android.southeastfieldguide","status":"mapped_selected_fact"},"moisture":{"evidence_id":"fact:6a0da872a57337fc932ba407debb79e70171cd1f3395a0423ed7547274c89a53","levels":[0,3],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-1","range":[0,3],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_moisture_categories","source_label":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emountainworks.android.southeastfieldguide","status":"mapped_selected_fact"}},"evidence":{"fit_score":null,"growth_habit":["Graminoid"],"invasive_status":{"status":"unresolved"},"native_status":{"status":"not_native"},"occurrence":{"county_fips":["13131"],"meaning":"Recorded occurrence; not a county native-range assertion"},"quercus_score":null,"regional":{"county_fips":["13131"],"growth_habit":"graminoid","growth_habit_source":"tnky_atlas","invasive":null,"invasive_evidence":[],"invasive_rank":null,"native":false,"native_evidence":[{"claim":"introduced","matched_name":"Urochloa texana","scope":"TN-KY","source":"tnky_atlas","url":"https://tennessee-kentucky.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/species/1235"},{"claim":"native","matched_name":"Urochloa texana","scope":"L48","source":"usda","text":"L48:N","url":"https://plants.usda.gov/"}],"native_status":"not_native","source_ids":["sernec:2775"],"source_name":"Urochloa texana","source_refs":["GA-checklist-7.html","sernec_county"],"source_url":"https://sernecportal.org/portal/checklists/checklist.php?pagenumber=7&clid=3416&dynclid=0&pid=84&searchsynonyms=1","state_rank":null},"source_refs":["GA-checklist-7.html","sernec_county"],"source_url":"https://sernecportal.org/portal/checklists/checklist.php?pagenumber=7&clid=3416&dynclid=0&pid=84&searchsynonyms=1","state_rank":{"value":null}},"fit_inputs":{"light":[2,4],"moisture":[0,3],"ph":null},"fit_provenance":{"light":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","moisture":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)"},"fit_record":{"band":"Not native","condition_evidence":{"light":{"evidence_id":"fact:9cb70e67535196b8b13a0b2cad68668ab748331802aae1df15232081981578f4","levels":[2,3,4],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-1","range":[2,4],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_light_categories","source_label":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emountainworks.android.southeastfieldguide","status":"mapped_selected_fact"},"moisture":{"evidence_id":"fact:6a0da872a57337fc932ba407debb79e70171cd1f3395a0423ed7547274c89a53","levels":[0,3],"policy":"selected-condition-categories-1","range":[0,3],"scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"semantics":"documented_native_habitat_conditions","source_field":"habitat_moisture_categories","source_label":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emountainworks.android.southeastfieldguide","status":"mapped_selected_fact"}},"county_fips":["13131","21037","47157"],"fit_inputs":{"light":[2,4],"moisture":[0,3],"ph":null},"fit_note":"Shared sunlight, moisture and pH calculation; county geography is an additional layer. Missing source traits remain unknown.","fit_provenance":{"light":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","moisture":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)"},"garden_suitability":{"default_excluded":false,"flags":[],"review_status":"not_assessed"},"invasive_rank":false,"native_eligible":false,"quercus_score":null,"state":"GA"},"garden_suitability":{"default_excluded":false,"flags":[],"review_status":"not_assessed"},"growing_observations":{"floraquest_carolinas_georgia":{"matched_name":"Urochloa texana","retrieved":"2026-10-04T13:31:16.252589+00:00","scope":{"kind":"region","region_id":"floraquest_nc_sc_ga"},"scope_note":"Original regional ecological and identification evidence; no location-specific gardening adjustments.","source_label":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","source_name":"Urochloa texana","source_record_id":2401,"source_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emountainworks.android.southeastfieldguide","trait_evidence":[{"field":"habitat_description","source_column":"HabitatText","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"Organism","value":"Edges of agricultural fields, other disturbed areas, gardens."},{"field":"geographic_range_description","source_column":"Description","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"Organism","value":"Native of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona south to Texas and Mexico. First reported for South Carolina by Hill & Horn (1997). Apparently spreading in eastern North America. Reported as \"new to Delaware and spreading in Maryland\" by Longbottom, Naczi, & Knapp (2016)."},{"field":"phenology_source_text","source_column":"Phenology","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"Organism","value":"May-Dec."},{"field":"taxonomic_synonymy","source_column":"Synonymy","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"Organism","value":"[= Ar, ETx1, FlGr, FNA25, K1, K4, Mex, Mo1, NcTx, NE, POWO, WH3, Crins (1991), Webster (1988); = Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S.T.Blake — NS; = n/a — Tat; = Panicum texanum Buckley — C, HC, RAB, S, Tx]"},{"field":"heliophily_index","source_column":"HIndex","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"Organism","value":8},{"field":"habitat_moisture_categories","source_column":"Attr2","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"GraphicKey","value":["Dry","Moist"]},{"field":"habitat_light_categories","source_column":"Attr3","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"GraphicKey","value":["Partial shade","Full sun"]},{"field":"graphic_key_source_attributes","source_column":"Attr0..25","source_database_sha256":"684f6b364ff9f3023aa61ed02ae50f6f6d6d4d3bcf76847b78ab769ae0453469","source_record_id":2401,"source_table":"GraphicKey","value":{"Attr0":"gr03","Attr1":"nc_cp,sc_cp,sc_pd,ga_cp,ga_pd,","Attr10":"no","Attr11":"g","Attr12":"ha","Attr13":"3Bw14,3Bw25,3Bw7","Attr2":"Dry,Moist","Attr3":"Part,Sun","Attr3a":"n","Attr3a_subregion":"native_nc_cp:n,native_sc_cp:n,native_sc_pd:n,native_ga_cp:n,native_ga_pd:n,","Attr4":" 4-1","Attr5":"h","Attr6":"le,mo","Attr7":"f,t","Attr8":"1","Attr9":"g"}}],"values":{"geographic_range_description":"Native of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona south to Texas and Mexico. First reported for South Carolina by Hill & Horn (1997). Apparently spreading in eastern North America. Reported as \"new to Delaware and spreading in Maryland\" by Longbottom, Naczi, & Knapp (2016).","graphic_key_source_attributes":{"Attr0":"gr03","Attr1":"nc_cp,sc_cp,sc_pd,ga_cp,ga_pd,","Attr10":"no","Attr11":"g","Attr12":"ha","Attr13":"3Bw14,3Bw25,3Bw7","Attr2":"Dry,Moist","Attr3":"Part,Sun","Attr3a":"n","Attr3a_subregion":"native_nc_cp:n,native_sc_cp:n,native_sc_pd:n,native_ga_cp:n,native_ga_pd:n,","Attr4":" 4-1","Attr5":"h","Attr6":"le,mo","Attr7":"f,t","Attr8":"1","Attr9":"g"},"habitat_description":"Edges of agricultural fields, other disturbed areas, gardens.","habitat_light_categories":["Partial shade","Full sun"],"habitat_moisture_categories":["Dry","Moist"],"heliophily_index":8,"phenology_source_text":"May-Dec.","taxonomic_synonymy":"[= Ar, ETx1, FlGr, FNA25, K1, K4, Mex, Mo1, NcTx, NE, POWO, WH3, Crins (1991), Webster (1988); = Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S.T.Blake — NS; = n/a — Tat; = Panicum texanum Buckley — C, HC, RAB, S, Tx]"}},"wildflower_center":{"matched_name":"Urochloa texana","retrieved":"2026-10-05T20:14:44.247706+00:00","scope":{"kind":"unspecified"},"scope_note":"Source-reported species characteristics; not a location-specific estimate.","source_label":"Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center","source_sha256":"3dc46544690d6364675ae5682b12397df11058aa2782d368c933cb35eca62094","source_url":"https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=URTE2","trait_evidence":[{"expected_source_name":"Brachiaria texana","field":"height_description","original_field":"height","record_id":"trait:4ea4ac7180627b643c2c6d5b8008d116fc900d3d6a03661a1525c68bd8bbcec2","retrieved_at":"2026-10-05T20:14:44.247706+00:00","scope":{"kind":"unspecified"},"scope_note":"Species profile; distribution and native-status discovery filters do not establish local growing or bloom timing.","source":"wildflower","source_name":"Urochloa texana","source_sha256":"3dc46544690d6364675ae5682b12397df11058aa2782d368c933cb35eca62094","source_url":"https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=URTE2","status":"eligible_fact","taxon_id":"taxon:e19c707b-35e8-5021-8880-eb3e33862259","value":{"approximate":true,"kind":"upper_bound","max":6,"unit":"feet"}},{"expected_source_name":"Brachiaria texana","field":"flower_color","original_field":"flower_color","record_id":"trait:bed12a48592cf7a6e1dc993c376b89089e643d60dfb30fb9aa35367e00828e68","retrieved_at":"2026-10-05T20:14:44.247706+00:00","scope":{"kind":"unspecified"},"scope_note":"Species profile; distribution and native-status discovery filters do not establish local growing or bloom timing.","source":"wildflower","source_name":"Urochloa texana","source_sha256":"3dc46544690d6364675ae5682b12397df11058aa2782d368c933cb35eca62094","source_url":"https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=URTE2","status":"eligible_fact","taxon_id":"taxon:e19c707b-35e8-5021-8880-eb3e33862259","value":["Green"]},{"expected_source_name":"Brachiaria texana","field":"life_cycle","original_field":"life_cycle","record_id":"trait:f3dfd24d46ea8e3799c45bf4fa57a98592f908776b6772b0c8d0659baaf9d043","retrieved_at":"2026-10-05T20:14:44.247706+00:00","scope":{"kind":"unspecified"},"scope_note":"Species profile; distribution and native-status discovery filters do not establish local growing or bloom timing.","source":"wildflower","source_name":"Urochloa texana","source_sha256":"3dc46544690d6364675ae5682b12397df11058aa2782d368c933cb35eca62094","source_url":"https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=URTE2","status":"eligible_fact","taxon_id":"taxon:e19c707b-35e8-5021-8880-eb3e33862259","value":["Annual"]}],"values":{"flower_color":["Green"],"height_description":"Up to about 6 feet","life_cycle":["Annual"]}}},"light_range":["part shade","full sun"],"light_source":"FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team)","native_synthesis":{"claims":[{"claim":"introduced","matched_name":"Urochloa texana","scope":"TN-KY","source":"tnky_atlas","url":"https://tennessee-kentucky.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant/species/1235"},{"claim":"native","matched_name":"Urochloa texana","scope":"L48","source":"usda","text":"L48:N","url":"https://plants.usda.gov/"}],"county_native_range":"unresolved","explanation":"Source scopes are preserved. State occurrence alone does not establish nativity; combined regional evidence is labeled estimated.","label":"Not native to Georgia","rule":"southeast-native-synthesis-1","status":"not_native"},"source_name":"Urochloa texana","taxon_id":"taxon:e19c707b-35e8-5021-8880-eb3e33862259","revision":"publish:5809c037-0e9a-430a-8008-5ab6f69800c0","photos":[{"id":"urochloa-texana-197848344","src":"/api/photos/image/1c89b4dee660e19299ccc93c92e2133076f1e2867c1c56a6af64da57c29871b9.jpg","view":"whole","alt":"Urochloa texana — whole photograph","width":960,"height":1280,"artist":"Sam Kieschnick","license":"CC BY 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urochloa_Texana.jpg","changes":"Wikimedia thumbnail; no crop or retouching"}]}