Eragrostis trichodes(Nutt.) Alph.Wood

sand lovegrass

WFO wfo-0000868560 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. a Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-04 / obs. 82577442
Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. b Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82577463
Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. c Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98799515
Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82577481
Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. e Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82577497
Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Nathan May
fig. f Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163643768
Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. g Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98799473
Eragrostis trichodes, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. h Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98799495

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Eragrostis trichodes is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming AlabamaArkansasColoradoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasLouisianaMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriNebraskaNew MexicoNew YorkOhioOklahomaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasVirginiaWisconsinWyoming
Native distribution of Eragrostis trichodes, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Colorado COL
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Louisiana LOU
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
Nebraska NEB
New Mexico NWM
New York NWY
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
South Dakota SDA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
Wisconsin WIS
Wyoming WYO

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.

Also published as 7 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 capillacea Jedwabn.
  • Eragrostis grandiflora J.G.Sm. & Bush
  • Eragrostis pilifera Scheele
  • Eragrostis tenuis A.Gray
  • Eragrostis tenuis var. texensis Vasey
  • Eragrostis trichodes var. pilifera (Scheele) Fernald
  • Poa trichodes Nutt.

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.