Index / Search / Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima

§1 Plant

Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Steud. var. miserrima (Fourn.) J. Reeder

vernacular desert lovegrass — variety · Poaceae


USDA
ERPEM
GBIF
4140036 syn.
Rank
variety
desert lovegrass (Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima)
Platephotograph · Barbara L. WilsonCC 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
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 55 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 55 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 55 counties across 13 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ERPEM ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/4140036 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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