Index / Search / Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea

§1 Plant

Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Steud. var. pectinacea

vernacular tufted lovegrass — variety · Poaceae


USDA
ERPEP2
GBIF
2705420
Rank
variety
tufted lovegrass (Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea)
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
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 598 counties across 29 states/territories
Legend Native · 598 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 598 counties across 29 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 13 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N
Indiana view state ↗ 77 N
Iowa view state ↗ 41 N
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 44 N
Maine view state ↗ 8 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 50 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 50 N
Montana view state ↗ 1 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 50 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 N
New York view state ↗ 4 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 10 N
Ohio view state ↗ 6 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 62 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 12 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 N
Vermont view state ↗ 10 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 23 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 63 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ERPEP2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2705420 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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