Eragrostis lugens |
Eragrostis minor |
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little lovegrass |
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Habit | Plants annual, 10–45 cm tall, tufted. | |
Culms | erect to decumbent, sometimes with a ring of glandular tissue below the nodes. |
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Leaves | sheaths sometimes glandular on the midveins; tops with hairs to 4 mm; blades 1.5– 10 cm × 1–3(4)mm; margins sometimes with saucer-like glands. |
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Inflorescences | 4–20 × 2.2–8(10)cm; ovate; open to contracted; rachises sometimes with glandular spots or pits below the nodes or rarely with a glandular ring; glands usually dull; greenish gray to straw-colored; primary branches 0.5–6 cm, diverging 20–100° from the inflorescence axis; pedicels 1–4 mm; stiff; straight, divergent, usually with a distal ring of saucer-like glands; disarticulation acropetal; paleas persistent. |
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Spikelets | 4–7(11) × 1.1–2.2 mm, mostly reddish purple to greenish to occasionally grayish, 7–12(20) florets. |
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Glumes | broadly ovate, membranous; lower glumes 0.9–1.4 mm; upper glumes 1.2–1.6 mm. |
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Caryopses | 0.4–0.7 mm, ellipsoid, not grooved. |
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Lemmas | 1.4–1.8 mm, broadly ovate, membranous; keels occasionally with 1–2 saucer-like glands; tips acute to obtuse. |
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Paleas | 1.3– 1.7 mm; hyaline; keels smooth or minutely scabrous. |
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Anthers | 2, 0.2–0.3 mm; reddish brown. |
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2n | =40. |
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Eragrostis lugens |
Eragrostis minor |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Disturbed places, pavement cracks. 50–900 m. BW, Col, Lava, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; throughout most of Canada and US; Europe. Exotic. Eragrostis minor closely resembles E. pectinacea, which is glandless. Similar Eragrostis cilianensis has denser inflorescences and wider spikelets. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 405 Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
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