Index / Search / Eragrostis trichodes
§1 Plant
Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Alph. Wood
vernacular sand lovegrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Eragrostis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 236 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–35 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,625,680
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 236 counties across 15 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Brown 17009
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Douglas 17041
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Jersey 17083
- Johnson 17087
- Macon 17115
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- Menard 17129
- Mercer 17131
- Monroe 17133
- Morgan 17137
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Pike 17149
- Sangamon 17167
- Schuyler 17169
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Tazewell 17179
- Whiteside 17195
Kansas view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Dickinson 20041
- Douglas 20045
- Edwards 20047
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Greenwood 20073
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Jackson 20085
- Jewell 20089
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lincoln 20105
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Neosho 20133
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stafford 20185
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Washington 20201
- Wyandotte 20209
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Antelope 31003
- Arthur 31005
- Box Butte 31013
- Buffalo 31019
- Butler 31023
- Cass 31025
- Cherry 31031
- Cuming 31039
- Custer 31041
- Dodge 31053
- Dundy 31057
- Franklin 31061
- Garden 31069
- Garfield 31071
- Grant 31075
- Hitchcock 31087
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Howard 31093
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Lincoln 31111
- Madison 31119
- Merrick 31121
- Morrill 31123
- Platte 31141
- Polk 31143
- Rock 31149
- Sarpy 31153
- Sheridan 31161
- Stanton 31167
- Thomas 31171
- Washington 31177
- Webster 31181
- Wheeler 31183
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Alfalfa 40003
- Blaine 40011
- Bryan 40013
- Caddo 40015
- Canadian 40017
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Creek 40037
- Dewey 40043
- Ellis 40045
- Garvin 40049
- Grant 40053
- Harper 40059
- Johnston 40069
- Kay 40071
- Kingfisher 40073
- Logan 40083
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- Murray 40099
- Muskogee 40101
- Oklahoma 40109
- Payne 40119
- Pontotoc 40123
- Roger Mills 40129
- Texas 40139
- Tillman 40141
- Woods 40151
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Atascosa 48013
- Bexar 48029
- Bowie 48037
- Brazos 48041
- Burnet 48053
- Callahan 48059
- Concho 48095
- Dallam 48111
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- DeWitt 48123
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fannin 48147
- Freestone 48161
- Garza 48169
- Gregg 48183
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Henderson 48213
- Hutchinson 48233
- Kaufman 48257
- Leon 48289
- Lipscomb 48295
- Panola 48365
- Parker 48367
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Smith 48423
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Tyler 48457
- Upshur 48459
- Van Zandt 48467
- Winkler 48495
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERTR3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705356 ↗Record version
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