Index / Search / Eriochloa contracta
§1 Plant
Eriochloa contracta Hitchc.
vernacular prairie cupgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Eriochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 237 counties across 22 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 237 counties across 22 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
California view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 78 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Brown 20013
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Chautauqua 20019
- Cherokee 20021
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Coffey 20031
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Decatur 20039
- Dickinson 20041
- Douglas 20045
- Elk 20049
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Franklin 20059
- Geary 20061
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greenwood 20073
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Jefferson 20087
- Jewell 20089
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Labette 20099
- Lincoln 20105
- Linn 20107
- Lyon 20111
- Marion 20115
- Marshall 20117
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Miami 20121
- Mitchell 20123
- Montgomery 20125
- Morris 20127
- Nemaha 20131
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Sedgwick 20173
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Stafford 20185
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Washington 20201
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Atchison 29005
- Bates 29013
- Boone 29019
- Callaway 29027
- Carroll 29033
- Cole 29051
- Cooper 29053
- Gentry 29075
- Henry 29083
- Jackson 29095
- Montgomery 29139
- Osage 29151
- Pemiscot 29155
- Phelps 29161
- Pike 29163
- Platte 29165
- Randolph 29175
- Ray 29177
- Saline 29195
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Francois 29187
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Webster 29225
Nebraska view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 57 N ▾
- Archer 48009
- Austin 48015
- Baylor 48023
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Calhoun 48057
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Chambers 48071
- Cooke 48097
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Eastland 48133
- Fannin 48147
- Floyd 48153
- Fort Bend 48157
- Galveston 48167
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hale 48189
- Harris 48201
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hunt 48231
- Jack 48237
- Jackson 48239
- Jim Wells 48249
- Jones 48253
- Karnes 48255
- Kerr 48265
- Kleberg 48273
- Lipscomb 48295
- McLennan 48309
- Moore 48341
- Nolan 48353
- Nueces 48355
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Randall 48381
- Refugio 48391
- Roberts 48393
- Robertson 48395
- Rockwall 48397
- San Patricio 48409
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Throckmorton 48447
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERCO8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2702515 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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