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sixweeks lovegrass

Habit Plants annual, (2)6–25 cm tall, tufted.
Culms

glabrous with elliptical; yellowish, glandular pits below the nodes.

Leaves

sheaths with elliptical glandular pits and with sparse hairs to 2 mm;

blades 2–12 cm × 1–3 mm, bases with glandular pits.

Inflorescences

4–10(15) × 0.5–2 cm, narrowly elliptic, contracted; dense, glandular pits on inflorescence axis and branches;

primary branches 1 per node, appressed or occasionally diverging to 30° from the inflorescence axis;

pedicels 1.4–10 mm, appressed or divergent;

disarticulation acropetal.

Spikelets

3.6–7.5 × 1.2–2 mm; light yellowish or occasionally reddish purple mottled, 6–11(14) florets.

Glumes

ovate to lanceolate; hyaline;

lower glumes (0.7)0.9– 1.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.2–1.8 mm.

Caryopses

0.5–0.8 mm.

Lemmas

1.5–2.2 mm; ovate; hyaline; straw-colored;

veins greenish and conspicuous;

tips acute.

Paleas

1.2–2 mm; hyaline, persistent;

keels minutely scabrous.

Anthers

3, 0.2–0.3 mm; purplish.

Eragrostis lehmanniana

Eragrostis lutescens

Distribution
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Discussion

Stream banks, lake shores, alkaline flats, and disturbed areas. 0–800m. WV. CA, NV, WA; southeast to CO and NM. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 404
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting
Sibling taxa
E. cilianensis, E. curvula, E. hypnoides, E. lutescens, E. mexicana, E. minor, E. pectinacea, E. pilosa
E. cilianensis, E. curvula, E. hypnoides, E. mexicana, E. minor, E. pectinacea, E. pilosa
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