Eragrostis bahiensis
Eragrostis elliottii
bahia lovegrass
Elliott's lovegrass, field lovegrass
25-95(110) cm, erect, glabrous.
25-80 cm, erect, glabrous and shiny below the basal nodes.
glabrous, summits hairy, hairs 1-3 mm;
ligules 0.2-0.4 mm;
blades (8)12-40 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous and glabrous or long ciliate basally.
sparsely hairy at the apices, hairs to 6 mm;
ligules 0.2-0.4 mm;
blades 6-30(52) cm long, 2-4.5 mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, sometimes with a few scattered hairs near the base.
terminal, 15-30(45) cm long, (4)8-17 cm wide, narrowly ovate, open to contracted;
primary branches 5-15 cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, often capillary, usually naked basally;
pulvini glabrous;
pedicels 0.3-6 mm, mostly appressed, scabridulous, always shorter than the spikelets.
(25)30-60 cm long, 15—45 cm wide, broadly ovate to obovate, open, diffuse;
primary branches mostly 5-25(32) cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, capillary;
pulvini hairy;
pedicels (4)10-35(50) mm, widely diverging, capillary, all the pedicels on each branch longer than the spikelets.
6-15(18) mm long, 1.3-2(2.2) mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, plumbeous, occasionally with a reddish-purple tinge, with 8-30(40) florets;
disarticulation usually in the rachilla below the florets, occasionally the lemmas falling separately, leaving the paleas on the rachilla.
4-18 mm long, 1.4-3 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, grayish-green or stramineous to purplish, with (6)9-30 florets;
disarticulation acropetal, below the lemmas, paleas persistent.
lanceolate to ovate, membranous to subhyaline, keeled;
lower glumes 1-1.4 mm;
upper glumes 1.4-1.7 mm;
lemmas 1.5-2.2 mm, broadly ovate, leathery, scabridulous, lateral veins evident, apices acute;
paleas 1.4-2.1 mm, hyaline, bases not projecting beyond the lemmas, keels scabridulous, apices acute to obtuse;
anthers 2, 0.4-0.6 mm, reddish-purple.
narrowly lanceolate, membranous;
lower glumes 1.1-3.4 mm;
upper glumes 1.6-3.4 mm, apices acuminate;
lemmas 1.8-4.4 mm, lanceolate, membranous, lateral veins evident to inconspicuous, sometimes greenish, apices acute to acuminate;
paleas 1.1-3.5 mm, hyaline to membranous, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse;
anthers 2, 0.3-0.8 mm, purplish or brownish.
0.6-0.8 mm, obovoid to ellipsoid, terete, somewhat striate, reddish-brown.
0.6-0.8 mm, ovoid to ellipsoid, finely striate, reddish-brown.
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Eragrostis bahiensis
Eragrostis elliottii
Eragrostis bahiensis grows in sandy soils near river banks, lake shores, and roadsides, at 0-200 m. Its range extends south from the Gulf Coast of the United States through Mexico to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Eragrostis elliottii grows in sandy pinelands and live-oak woodlands on the coastal plain, at 0-150 m. Its range extends from the southeastern United States through the West Indies and Gulf coast of Mexico to Central and South America.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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