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§1 Plant

Eragrostis capillaris (L.) Nees

vernacular lace grass — species · Poaceae


USDA
ERCA
GBIF
7976546
Rank
species
lace grass (Eragrostis capillaris)
Platephotograph · Andy NewmanCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Eragrostis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 294 counties across 19 states/territories
Legend Native · 294 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 294 counties across 19 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 7 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 21 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 34 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N
Maine view state ↗ 3 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 13 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N
New York view state ↗ 30 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 23 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 40 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
Vermont view state ↗ 4 N
Virginia view state ↗ 56 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 17 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ERCA ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7976546 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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