PLANTS Profile for Eragrostis mexicana (Mexican lovegrass)

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Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link
Mexican lovegrass

Symbol:

ERME

Group:

Monocot

Family:

Poaceae

Duration:

Annual

Growth Habit:

Graminoid

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N

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Line Drawing of Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link

Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. 1950. Usage Requirements.

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Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link

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Distribution:
Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link


View Native Status

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, ND, NM, NV, OR, SC, TX, UT, WA, WI), CAN (BC, ON)

Related Taxa:
Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link

View 342 genera in Poaceae, 78 species in Eragrostis or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Distribution of Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link ssp. mexicana. . Image Available.

Eragrostis mexicana ssp. mexicana
Mexican lovegrass

Distribution of Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link ssp. virescens (J. Presl) S.D. Koch & Sánchez Vega. . Image Available.

Eragrostis mexicana ssp. virescens
Mexican lovegrass

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Commelinidae
Order	Cyperales
Family	Poaceae – Grass family
Genus	Eragrostis von Wolf – lovegrass
Species	Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link – Mexican lovegrass

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link

Nat. Ind.

Reg. 1

Reg. 2

Reg. 3

Reg. 4

Reg. 5

Reg. 6

Reg. 7

Reg. 8

Reg. 9

Reg. 0

Reg. A

Reg. C

Reg. H

UPL,FAC

UPL

FAC

FACU+

FACU

FAC

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link

View species account, distribution map, and illustration from the Grass Manual on the Web.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 40749.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

Time Generated: 05/18/2013 12:21 PM CDT