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§1 Plant
Eriochloa sericea (Scheele) Munro ex Vasey
vernacular Texas cupgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Eriochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 56 counties across 3 states/territories§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 56 counties across 3 states/territories.
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Archer 48009
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Bosque 48035
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Collin 48085
- Comal 48091
- Crockett 48105
- Dallas 48113
- DeWitt 48123
- Edwards 48137
- Gillespie 48171
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hill 48217
- Hunt 48231
- Irion 48235
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Lampasas 48281
- Leon 48289
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Nueces 48355
- Parker 48367
- Real 48385
- Refugio 48391
- Runnels 48399
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Shackelford 48417
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERSE5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702516 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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