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§1 Plant
Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
vernacular Japanese lovegrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Eragrostis
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- NAV Navassa Island Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 44 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 44 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hernando 12053
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERAM7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705441 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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