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§1 Plant

Lolium perenne L. ssp. perenne

vernacular perennial ryegrass — subspecies · Poaceae


USDA
LOPEP
GBIF
2706241 syn.
Rank
subspecies
perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne ssp. perenne)
Platephotograph · Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov)CC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Lolium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 184 counties across 20 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 184 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 184 counties across 20 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 4 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I
Iowa view state ↗ 11 I
Kansas view state ↗ 50 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 17 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 11 I
North Dakota view state ↗ 4 I
Ohio view state ↗ 3 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 8 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 27 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 17 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LOPEP ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2706241 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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