Erioneuron

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Erioneuron
Erioneuron pulchellum
Erioneuron pulchellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
(unranked) Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Genus: Erioneuron
Nash
Species

3 to 5 - see text

Erioneuron is a genus of grasses sometimes called by the common name woollygrass. There are only three to five species, all of which are native to South and Central America and the southern half of North America. These are tufty grasses with hairy spikelets.

Species include:

  • Erioneuron avenaceum - shortleaf woollygrass, large-flowered tridens
  • Erioneuron nealleyi - Nealley's woollygrass
  • Erioneuron pilosum - hairy woollygrass
  • Erioneuron pulchellum syn. Tridens pulchellum - fluff grass

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