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| Poaceae | Eragrostis airoides | Darnel Lovegrass | | Native of South America. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis amabilis | Japanese Lovegrass, Feather Lovegrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of Old World. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis atrovirens | Thalia Lovegrass | Disturbed areas, especially on open, sandy sites. | Native of Africa. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis bahiensis | Bahia Lovegrass | Disturbed sandy areas. | Native of tropical America. Reported for SC (Kartesz 1999) presumably based upon a single specimen at NCU (Duke 1980); sw. GA (Jones & Coile 1988, GW, Kartesz 1999). Otherwise primarily FL w. to LA. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis barrelieri | Mediterranean Lovegrass | Disturbed area, including (in SC) waste areas near wool-combing mills. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. Also reported for e. TN (Chester et al. 1993). | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis capillaris | Lace Lovegrass, Lacegrass | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | ME and WI south to GA, FL Panhandle, and TX. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis cilianensis | Stinkgrass | Fields, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris | | Sandy shores. | Naturalized from s. SC south to s. FL, west to TX. Narive of the neotropics: West Indies; Central America to South America; Africa and Asia. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis ciliaris var. laxa | | Disturbed areas. | Native of the Paleotropics. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis cumingii | Fortyflower Lovegrass, Cuming's Lovegrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of e. Asia, se. Asia, south to Australia. Reported for NC (Kartesz 1999) and sw. GA (Jones & Coile 1988, HC). | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass | Sandy woodlands, prairies. | Native from KS and CO south to TX, NM, and Mexico (COA, NLE); eastern outliers in MO, AR, and LA are of questionable nativity. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis curvula | Weeping Lovegrass | Roadsides. | Native of s. Africa. Very commonly planted as a roadbank stabilizer, E. curvula is fire resistant and shows some capability to spread into adjacent natural habitats. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis cylindriflora | | On port waste, a waif. | Native of s. Africa. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis echinochloidea | | On port waste, a waif. | Native of s. Africa. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis elliottii | Elliott's Lovegrass | Ultisol wet pine savannas, maritime wet grasslands, inland edges of brackish marshes, inland edges of freshwater tidal marshes, calcareously-influenced wet pine savannas. | NC south to s. FL, west to e. TX; West Indies; c. Mexico south to Belize. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis elongata | Long Lovegrass | Waste areas near wool-combing mills or old sea-ports. | Native of se. Asia and Australia. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis frankii | Lacegrass, Sandbar Lovegrass | Rocky river shores, sand bars, floodplains of rivers in clearings. | MA and MN south to GA and AR. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis gangetica | Slimflower Lovegrass | Ditches, roadsides, pond margins. | Native of s. Asia. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis hirsuta | Bigtop Lovegrass | Fields, roadsides, clearings, disturbed areas. | MD south to FL, west to TX, north in the interior to TN, AR, and MO; Central America. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis hypnoides | Creeping Lovegrass, Teal Lovegrass | Marshes, shores, riverbanks, shores, impoundments. | ME and QC west to SK, south to s. FL, TX, and CA; West Indies; south to South America. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass | Sandy woodlands, prairies, disturbed areas. | MO, KS, NM, and AZ south to AR, TX, Mexico, and Central America. Reported for scattered locations as far east as NC and SC (Kartesz 1999), e. GA (Jones & Coile 1988), e. TN (Chester et al. 1993). | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis japonica | Pond Lovegrass | Riverbanks, other moist or wet sandy areas. | SC and TN south to Central America, South America, and West Indies; Old World tropics. Probably introduced from the Old World. Reported for SC by HC, G, and Small (1933) and corroborated by recent collections (K. Bradley, pers.comm., 2020), sw. GA by Jones & Coile (1988), and for w. TN by Chester et al. (1993). | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis lehmanniana | Lehmann's Lovegrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of s. Africa. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis leptostachya | Australian Lovegrass | Grown in experimental nursery. | Native of Australia. Reported for NC (Kartesz 1999, 2010); rejected by FNA as a component of the North American flora. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis lugens | Mourning Lovegrass | Marshes, roadsides, low fields. | Sw. and sc. United States south to Mexico; the native distribution is uncertain. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis mexicana ssp. mexicana | Mexican Lovegrass | Disturbed areas, waste areas near wool-combing mills. | Native of w. North America and Mexico. Reported to be naturalized as far east and north as SC, DE, and MD (Kartesz 1999). | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis mexicana ssp. virescens | | Disturbed areas. | Native of South America and w. North America. Reported as an introduction on ballast in MD and FL. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis minor | Little Lovegrass, Bluegrass Lovegrass | Disturbed areas, compacted soils of pastures and fields, other disturbed areas, as in cinders along railroads. | Native of Europe. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis oxylepis | Red Lovegrass | Sandy roadsides, coastal dunes, and disturbed areas. | NE and CO south to FL, TX, NM, and Mexico. Scattered eastwards and of uncertain nativity. First reported for SC by Nelson & Kelly (1997). | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis palmeri | Rio Grande Lovegrass | | S., sc., and w. TX, NM, and AZ south into Mexico. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima | | Disturbed habitats. | From FL and westward and southward. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea | Carolina Lovegrass | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | ME and WA south to Central America; West Indies. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis pilosa var. pilosa | India Lovegrass | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical regions of the Old and New World. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis plana | South African Lovegrass | Waste areas near wool-combing mills. | Native of South Africa. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis polytricha | Hairysheath Lovegrass | Pinelands. | From Alachua County, FL south to c. FL; s. Mexico, Central America, South America. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis prolifera | Dominican Lovegrass | Road shoulders, other dry, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis refracta | Coastal Lovegrass | Pinelands, pine savannas, woodlands, bogs and seeps, marshes, maritime grasslands. | DE south to s. FL, west to TX. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis reptans | Creeping Lovegrass | Shores and wet flats along rivers, streams, and reservoirs. | WV, IL, IA, and SD south to sw. GA, Panhandle FL, AL, MS, LA, TX and n. Mexico. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis scaligera | Tender Lovegrass | Coastal scrubs, vacant lots, other disturbed areas. | Native of Brazil. Primariliy occurring in s. FL in our area; the collection from Camden County, GA (Carter 12804) needs confirmation. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis sessilispica | Tumble Lovegrass | Sandy prairies and oak woodlands. | Sw. KS south through OK and e. NM to s. TX and Mexico (CHH, TAM, VER). | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis setifolia | Neverfail | Waste areas near wool-combing mills. | Native of Australia. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis silveana | Silveus's Lovegrass | Sandy prairies, disturbed areas. | Se. TX and adjacent Mexico (COA, NLE, OAX, QRO, SLP, TAM). | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass, Tumblegrass | Longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, other dry woodlands, sandy fields, roadsides. | ME west to ND, south to s. FL, TX, and n. Mexico. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis spicata | Spiked Lovegrass | Prairies, post oak woodlands, mesquital. | E. and s. TX to Mexico (BCN, BCS, SON, TAM); Paraguay and Argentina. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis superba | Wilmann's Lovegrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis swallenii | Swallen's Lovegrass | Sandy prairies. | S. TX south into Mexico (CHIH, COAH, DGO, GTO, GRO, JAL, MEX, MIC, OAX, PUE, QRO, SLP, TAMS, VER). | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis tef | Teff | Waste areas near wool-combing mills, other disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis tracyi | Sanibel Island Lovegrass | Beaches, disturbed sandy areas. | Endemic to sw. peninsular FL (Pinellas County south to Collier County). | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis trichodes | Sand Lovegrass | Sandy prairies, disturbed areas. | IL, MN, SD, and se. WY south to MS, LA, TX, NM, AZ, and Mexico. | 
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| Poaceae | Eragrostis trichophora | Hairyflower Lovegrass | Waif on ore piles. | Native of Africa. | |
| Poaceae | Eragrostis unioloides | Chinese Lovegrass | Cypress swamps, wet pine flatwoods, other wet disturbed areas. | Native of Asia. Reported for s. GA (Jones & Coile 1988, FNA, GW, HC). | 
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