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§1 Plant

Lolium perenne L. ssp. perenne

vernacular perennial ryegrass — subspecies · Poaceae


USDA
LOPEP
GBIF
2706241 syn.
Rank
subspecies
perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne ssp. perenne)
Platephotograph · Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov)CC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Lolium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 217 counties across 27 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 217 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 217 counties across 27 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 I ▾
California view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 50 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 14 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 11 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 27 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 17 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LOPEP ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2706241 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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