Uniola virgata(Poir.) Griseb.

limestone grass

WFO wfo-0000906645 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Uniola virgata, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. a Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-06 / obs. 195515046
Uniola virgata, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61219614
Uniola virgata, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. c Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195819065
Uniola virgata, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. d Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196070945
Uniola virgata, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61219600
Uniola virgata, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. f Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196070986
Uniola virgata, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. g Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195819345
Uniola virgata, photographed by Yolanda M. Leon
fig. h Yolanda M. Leon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 48500913

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Uniola virgata is native: Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is. CubaDominican RepublicHaitiJamaicaPuerto Rico BahamasLeeward Is.Turks-Caicos Is.
Native distribution of Uniola virgata, 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
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI

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 6 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.

  • Eleusine procera Spreng. ex Steud.
  • Leptochlooepsis virgata (Poir.) Yates
  • Leptochloopsis virgata (Poir.) Yates
  • Poa virgata Poir.
  • Uniola racemiflora Trin.
  • Uniola sparta Trin.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol LEVI10. public domain. 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.