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§1 Plant

Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin.

vernacular pond lovegrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
ERJA4
GBIF
2705394
Rank
species
pond lovegrass (Eragrostis japonica)
Platephotograph · zhangyuhongCC 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

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 132 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 132 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 132 counties across 10 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 8 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 25 I
Florida view state ↗ 4 I
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 53 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 22 I
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 I
Texas view state ↗ 7 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ERJA4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2705394 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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