Ehrharta is a genus of plants in the grass family. Most of the species are native to Africa, with a few from Southeast Asia and from various islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The genus is also found in Australia, southern Asia, the Mediterranean, and North America. Several including Ehrharta longiflora, Ehrharta calycina and Ehrharta erecta are considered invasive weeds. Common names for this genus include veldtgrass. This genus was named for the German botanist Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, 1742–1795.

Species

Formerly included

Several species now considered better suited to other genera: Brylkinia Leersia Melinis Microlaena Sporobolus Tristachya Zotovia • Ehrharta caudata - Brylkinia caudata • Ehrharta clandestina - Leersia oryzoides • Ehrharta colensoi - Zotovia colensoi • Ehrharta hispida - Tristachya leucothrix • Ehrharta multinoda - Microlaena polynoda • Ehrharta stipoides Labill.

• Microlaena stipoides • Ehrharta tenella - Sporobolus tenellus • Ehrharta thomsonii - Zotovia thomsonii • Ehrharta uniglumis Fenzl ex T.Durand & Schinz 1894 not F.Muell. 1855 - Melinis repens subsp. grandiflora