Taxon: Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Jedwabn.

• Nees (1841) only mentions E. pectinacea Michx., but provides no description sufficient to validate a new combination under Vienna ICBN Art. 33.3
• similarly not validated by Steudel in Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2

Common names:

• Carolina love grass   (Source: Atlas Florida ) – English
  
• tufted love grass   (Source: Atlas Florida ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Nova Scotia, Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina [s.w.], Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Colima, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nayarit
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama
  Caribbean: Bahamas
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina [n.]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Angelo, R. & D. E. Boufford. Atlas of the flora of New England - on-line version. (Atlas NEng) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Steud.].
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• CONABIO. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad en Mexico. Sistema Integrado de Información Taxonómica (SIIT) - on-line resource. (CONABIO)
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees].
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer) [with two varieties].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Steud.].
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees].
• Peterson, P. M. & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2005. Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae: Eragrostidinae) from northeastern Mexico. Sida 21:1403–1406.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 2002. Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47:182.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees].
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees].
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants - on-line version. (Atlas Florida) [lists as Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Jedwabn.].
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent) [lists as E. pectinacea (Michx.) Nees].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eragrostis pectinacea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eragrostis pectinacea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Eragrostis diffusa Buckley
  
• (≡) Poa pectinacea Michx. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Jedwabn.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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