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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Eragrostideae
  8. Eragrostidinae

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Eragrostidinae

Eragrostidinae

Includes
21 native 16 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Love Grass 21 native
  • Bristly Lovegrass
  • Pogonarthria

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Eragrostidinae All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Mexican Lovegrass Eragrostis mexicana caterpillars 2 food 7
  • Teal Lovegrass Eragrostis hypnoides caterpillars 2 food 4
  • Plains Lovegrass Eragrostis intermedia caterpillars 1 food 9
  • Jersey Love-grass Eragrostis pilosa caterpillars 1 food 7
  • Purple Lovegrass Eragrostis spectabilis caterpillars 1 food 5
  • Carolina Lovegrass Eragrostis pectinacea caterpillars 1 food 5
  • Sand Lovegrass Eragrostis trichodes caterpillars 1 food 3
  • Mexican Lovegrass Eragrostis virescens caterpillars 1 food 3
  • Bigtop Lovegrass Eragrostis hirsuta food 4
  • Frank's Lovegrass Eragrostis frankii food 4
  • Red Lovegrass Eragrostis secundiflora food 3
  • Elliott's Lovegrass Eragrostis elliottii food 3
  • Gummy Lovegrass Eragrostis curtipedicellata food 3
  • Creeping Lovegrass Eragrostis reptans food 3
  • Coastal Lovegrass Eragrostis refracta food 3
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