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§1 Plant

Eragrostis minor Host

vernacular little lovegrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
ERMI5
GBIF
2705449
Rank
species
little lovegrass (Eragrostis minor)
Platephotograph · Douglas GoldmanCC BY-SA 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 Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 373 counties across 38 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 373 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 373 counties across 38 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
California view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 46 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 24 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 22 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 49 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 24 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 3 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 27 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ERMI5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2705449 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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