§1 Plant
Aira elegans Willd. ex Kunth
vernacular annual silver hairgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Aira
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 83 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 83 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Cleburne 05023
- Conway 05029
- Crawford 05033
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Independence 05063
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Logan 05083
- Miller 05091
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Searcy 05129
- Sevier 05133
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
Georgia view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Brunswick 51025
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fluvanna 51065
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- Lancaster 51103
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AIEL4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7948459 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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