Taxon: Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Alph. Wood

Common names:

• capim-amoroso-da-areia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• sand love grass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota [s.], Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota [s.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [e.], Wyoming [s.e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Louisiana [n.], Mississippi [n.], Tennessee [s.w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [n.e.], Texas

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas. (Grass Tex)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico. (F New Mex)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas. (L Minn)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Wetter, M. A. et al. WISFLORA: Wisconsin vascular plant species - on-line resource. (F Wisconsin)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eragrostis trichodes.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Eragrostis pilifera Scheele
  
• (≡) Poa trichodes Nutt. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Alph. Wood:

• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Images:

• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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