Index / Search / Eragrostis curvula
§1 Plant
Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees
vernacular weeping 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
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 241 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -8 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 15–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–8.5
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- 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
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,482,320
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 241 counties across 27 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 14 I ▾
California view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Curry 35009
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Luna 35029
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
New York view state ↗ 4 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 4 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 43 I ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Bandera 48019
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Callahan 48059
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Collingsworth 48087
- Comanche 48093
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Donley 48129
- Fayette 48149
- Gaines 48165
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Gray 48179
- Harris 48201
- Harrison 48203
- Hemphill 48211
- Henderson 48213
- Hill 48217
- Houston 48225
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Kleberg 48273
- Lamb 48279
- Leon 48289
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- McLennan 48309
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Robertson 48395
- Tarrant 48439
- Val Verde 48465
- Van Zandt 48467
- Wheeler 48483
- Williamson 48491
- Wood 48499
Utah view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Amherst 51009
- Buchanan 51027
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Frederick 51069
- Goochland 51075
- Greene 51079
- Hanover 51085
- Isle of Wight 51093
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- Northampton 51131
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Rappahannock 51157
- Richmond 51159
- Shenandoah 51171
- Westmoreland 51193
Washington view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERCU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705378 ↗Record version
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