Eragrostis barrelieri |
Eragrostis lutescens |
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Mediterranean love grass |
six-weeks love grass |
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Habit | Plants annual; tufted, without innovations. | Plants annual; tufted, without innovations. |
Culms | (5)10-60 cm, erect or decumbent, much-branched near the base, with a ring of glandular tissue below the nodes, rings often shiny or yellowish. |
(2)6-25 cm, usually erect, sometimes decumbent, glabrous, with elliptical, yellowish, glandular pits below the nodes. |
Sheaths | hairy at the apices, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate; blades 1.5-10 cm long, 1-3(5) mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces glabrous, sometimes scabridulous, occasionally with white hairs to 3 mm, margins without crateriform glands. |
with elliptical glandular pits, sparsely hairy at the throat, hairs to 2 mm; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate; blades 2-12 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces scabridulous, bases with glandular pits. |
Panicles | 4-20 cm long, 2.2-8(10) cm wide, ovate, open to contracted, rachises with shiny or yellowish glandular spots or rings below the nodes; primary branches 0.5-6 cm, diverging 20-100° from the rachises; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 1-4 mm, stout, stiff, divergent, without glandular bands. |
terminal, 4-10(15) cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, narrowly elliptic, contracted, dense; primary branches alternate, usually appressed, occasionally diverging to 30° from the rachises, rachises and branches with glandular pits; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 1.4-10 mm, appressed or divergent. |
Spikelets | 4-7(11) mm long, 1.1-2.2 mm wide, narrowly ovate, reddish-purple to greenish, occasionally grayish, with 7-12(20) florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. |
3.6-7.5 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, narrowly ovate, light yellowish, occasionally mottled with reddish-purple, with 6-11(14) florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. |
Glumes | broadly ovate, membranous, 1-veined; lower glumes 0.9-1.4 mm; upper glumes 1.2-1.6 mm; lemmas 1.4-1.8 mm, broadly ovate, membranous, apices acute to obtuse; paleas 1.3-1.7 mm, hyaline, keels scabrous, scabridities to 0.1 mm, apices obtuse to acute; anthers 3, 0.1-0.2 mm, reddish-brown. |
subequal, ovate to lanceolate, hyaline; lower glumes (0.7)0.9-1.4 mm; upper glumes 1.2-1.8 mm; lemmas 1.5-2.2 mm, ovate, subhyaline, stramineous, veins greenish and conspicuous, apices acute; paleas 1.2-2 mm, hyaline, keels scabridulous, apices obtuse; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm, purplish. |
Caryopses | 0.4-0.7 mm, ellipsoid, not grooved, smooth to faintly striate, light brown. |
0.5-0.8 mm, pyriform except slightly flattened adaxially, smooth, light brown. |
2n | = 40. |
= unknown. |
Eragrostis barrelieri |
Eragrostis lutescens |
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Distribution |
AL; AZ; CA; CO; FL; KS; LA; MA; MD; MO; NE; NM; NV; OK; SC; TN; TX; UT; PR; Virgin Islands
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; NM; NV; OR; WA |
Discussion | Eragrostis barrelieri is a European species that is now naturalized in the Flora region, primarily in the south-western United States. It grows on gravelly roadsides, in gardens, and other disturbed, sandy sites, especially near railroad yards, at 10-2000 m. The ring of glandular tissue is most conspicuous below the upper cauline nodes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Eragrostis lutescens grows on the sandy banks of streams and lakes and in moist alkaline flats of the western United States at 300-2000 m. It has not been reported from Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 83. | FNA vol. 25, p. 79. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Eragrostis | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Eragrostis |
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Name authority | Daveau | Scribn. |
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