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§1 Plant
Eragrostis intermedia Hitchc.
vernacular plains 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
· 210 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 170 min.
- Precipitation
- 5–18 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.7–7.8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 2.7 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- 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
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,300,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Field Collections Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 210 counties across 14 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Boone 05009
- Bradley 05011
- Cleburne 05023
- Conway 05029
- Crawford 05033
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Izard 05065
- Johnson 05071
- Logan 05083
- Polk 05113
- Pulaski 05119
- Scott 05127
- Sebastian 05131
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 102 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Andrews 48003
- Angelina 48005
- Archer 48009
- Austin 48015
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Clay 48077
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Eastland 48133
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Erath 48143
- Falls 48145
- Fayette 48149
- Franklin 48159
- Freestone 48161
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grimes 48185
- Guadalupe 48187
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hopkins 48223
- Houston 48225
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hunt 48231
- Jack 48237
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kaufman 48257
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Lampasas 48281
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- Matagorda 48321
- Maverick 48323
- McCulloch 48307
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Milam 48331
- Montague 48337
- Montgomery 48339
- Nueces 48355
- Parker 48367
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Rockwall 48397
- San Augustine 48405
- San Patricio 48409
- Smith 48423
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Titus 48449
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Waller 48473
- Ward 48475
- Washington 48477
- Wharton 48481
- Wichita 48485
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERIN ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705425 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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