''Eragrostis trichodes'', the sand lovegrass, is a warm season perennial

bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...

native to

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

Description

''Eragrostis trichodes'' is most common in sandy soil of the prairies on the central and southern

Great Plains The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, an ...

. The diffuse seedhead is often half the size of the entire Sand lovegrass plant.

trichodes ''Trichodes'' is a genus of checkered beetle belonging to the family Cleridae, subfamily Clerinae. Species These 64 species belong to the genus ''Trichodes'': * '' Trichodes affinis'' Chevrolat, 1843 * '' Trichodes albanicus'' Winkler & Zirovnic ...

Bunchgrasses of North America Grasses of the United States Native grasses of the Great Plains region Flora of the United States Native grasses of Texas Native grasses of Nebraska Native grasses of Oklahoma {{Chloridoideae-stub