Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Wood

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Eragrostis pilifera Scheele, Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Nash, Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Wood var. pilifera (Scheele) Fern., Poa trichodes Nutt.

Common names:

Blow-out grass [Blow-out-grass] (1913-1958) (5, 93, 111, 116, 119)

Branching spear grass [Branching spear-grass] (1901) (94)

Hair-like eragrostis (1901-1907) (56, 72)

Hair-like love grass [Hair-like love-grass] (1913-1938) (5, 119)

Love grass [Love-grass, Lovegrass] (1958, Neb) (116)

Sand love grass [Sand lovegrass] (1942-Present) (3, 50, 155)

Sand-hill love grass [Sandhill lovegrass] (1942) (155)