| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poaceae | Eriochloa acuminata var. acuminata | Disturbed areas, urban waste areas, waste areas near wool-combing mills. | Presumably native of farther south and west. Reported for scattered locations in GA (Jones & Coile 1988, as E. gracilis). Reported for NC (Kartesz 1999), but the specimen basis is of cultivated material. Reported as well-established in Laurens County, SC (Bradley et al. [in prep.]). |  | |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa aristata | Bearded Cupscale | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mexico to South America. | |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa contracta | Prairie Cupgrass | Prairies, roadsides, wet or moist disturbed areas, waste areas around wool-combing mills. | IL, NE, CO, and NM south to MS, LA, TX, NM, and Mexico. |  |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa fatmensis | Disturbed areas, perhaps only a waif. | Native of the paleotropics. | ||
| Poaceae | Eriochloa michauxii var. michauxii | Longleaf Cupgrass | Coastal freshwater and slightly brackish marshes, pine flatwoods, pine rocklands, Florida prairies. | Se. SC south to s. FL, west to s. FL Panhandle. |  |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa michauxii var. simpsonii | Simpson’s Cupgrass | Beaches, dunes. | Endemic to sw. FL. | |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa polystachya | Caribbean Cupgrass, Carib Grass, Malojilla | Disturbed areas. | Native of the West Indies, Central America, and South America. |  |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha | Vernal Cupgrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of Australia. | |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa punctata | Louisiana Cupgrass | Marshes, creek banks. | MS west to TX, and south to South America; West Indies. Reported for e. GA (FNA); record rejected in Kartesz (2020). | |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass, Silky Cupgrass | Blackland prairies, coastal prairies, disturbed areas. | KS south through OK to TX and n. Mexico (COA, TAM). | |
| Poaceae | Eriochloa villosa | Chinese Cupgrass | Fields, meadows, other disturbed areas (open edge of railroad bed). | Native of e. Asia. See Belden et al. (2004) for additional information about the first occurrence in Virginia. |
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