DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Eragrostis curvula | Weeping Lovegrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Weeping lovegrass is native to South Africa [28,57]; it has been
introduced into North and South America [57].  Weeping lovegrass was
first introduced into the United States in 1932 [62].  It occurs in
North America from Massachusetts and New York [22] south to Florida [28]
and west to California [27,36].  It is common in Oklahoma, Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona [28,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AZ  AR  CA  CO  FL  GA  HI  KS  LA
     MD  MA  MS  NJ  NM  NY  NC  OK  PA  SC
     TX  VA  WV  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BUFF  GATE  LAMR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    67  Mohrs (shin) oak
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Common associates of weeping lovegrass include turbinella oak (Quercus
turbinella), pointleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos pungens), Pringle
manzanita (A. pringlei), desert ceanothus (Ceanothus greggii), sugar
sumac (Rhus ovata), skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), hollyleaf buckthorn
(Rhamnus crocea), Wright silktassel (Garrya wrightii), yellowleaf
silktassel (G. flavescens), birchleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus
betuloides), Mexican cliffrose (Cowania mexicana), and Lehmann lovegrass
(Eragrostis lehmanniana) [7,14,32,41].

Weeping lovegrass associates in sand dune vegetation in Woodward County,
Oklahoma, include sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia), bush morning
glory (Ipomoea leptophylla), sand pea (Tephrosia virginiana), horseweed
(Erigeron canadensis), partridge-pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata), slender
scurf-pea (Psoralea tenuiflora), grama (Bouteloua spp.), buffalo grass
(Buchloe dactyloides), sand paspalum (Paspalum stramineum), and
switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) [47].

Related categories for Species: Eragrostis curvula | Weeping Lovegrass