See other conspecific taxa:

• Eragrostis pilosa var. perplexa (0 accessions)
• Eragrostis pilosa var. pilosa (0 accessions)

Common names:

• hairy love grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• India love grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• Indian love grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• Jersey lovegrass  (Source: BSBI) - English
• soft love grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• pâturin poilu  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• behaartes Liebesgras  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• capim-barbicha-de-alemão  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-mimoso  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-orvalho  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capim-peludo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• panasco  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• barba de indio  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant;

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Transvaal]

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation-Far East [Far East]
• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Korea, Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation, [Kalmykia, Astrakhan, Saratov, Volgograd] Russian Federation-European part, [European part (s.)] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain

Northern America

• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Nebraska, North Dakota]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Wyoming]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas (n.w.)]


Naturalized

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• Mexico

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

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