Eragrostis barrelieriDaveau

Mediterranean lovegrass

WFO wfo-0000867414 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. a Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-28 / obs. 184391129
Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. b Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137213902
Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. c Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79704869
Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Zinogre
fig. d Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 41265983
Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. e Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2591703
Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. f Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2400237
Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. g Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175399365
Eragrostis barrelieri, photographed by Evelyn Lazzaretti 🏳️‍⚧️
fig. h Evelyn Lazzaretti 🏳️‍⚧️, CC0 1.0 / obs. 163793561

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Eragrostis barrelieri is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Afghanistan, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Baleares, France, Italy, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaChadDR CongoEgyptEritreaEthiopiaLibyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoNigerSomaliaSudan-South SudanTunisiaWestern SaharaAfghanistanGulf StatesIranIraqKuwaitOmanSaudi ArabiaSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanYemenPakistanFranceItalySiciliaSpain AzoresCanary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraBaleares
Native distribution of Eragrostis barrelieri, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Niger NGR
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kuwait KUW
Oman OMA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Yemen YEM
Baleares BAL EUROPE
France FRA
Italy ITA
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 292 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.3 °C 12.4 °C 21.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.3 °C 27.9 °C 36.0 °C
Annual rainfall 289 mm 790 mm 993 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 4 mm 102 mm 184 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 292 research-grade observations of Eragrostis barrelieri that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eragrostis barrelieri subsp. ambigua (Dobignard & Portal) H.Scholz & Valdés
  • Eragrostis barrelieri subsp. pygmaea (Daveau) Portal & H.Scholz
  • Eragrostis barrelieri subvar. pygmaea Daveau
  • Eragrostis barrelieri var. ambigua Dobignard & Portal
  • Eragrostis barrelieri var. pygmaea (Daveau) Dobignard & Portal
  • Eragrostis insulatlantica A.Chev.
  • Eragrostis panormitana Lojac.
  • Eragrostis pooides var. barrielieri (Daveau) Fiori
  • Eragrostis vulgaris subsp. barrelieri (Daveau) Douin
  • Eragrostis vulgaris var. barrelieri (Daveau) Douin

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.