Species: Torreyochloa pallida

Range for the species as a whole: Newfoundland to Alaska, south in the east to Georgia and Missouri, in the west to New Mexico and California. Variety pallida: Nova Scotia west to Ontario and Minnesota, south to North Carolina, northwestern South Carolina, northern Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and southeast Missouri. Variety fernaldii: Newfoundland to British Columbia, south to Minnesota, Michigan, West Virginia, Delaware; also Wyoming. Variety pauciflora: Alaska to South Dakota, south to California and New Mexico. Sometimes considered to be conspecific with the east Asian T. natans [V.. Komarov] Church and T. viridis [A. Hitchc.] Church (Davis 1991).