Eragrostis barrelieri
Eragrostis swallenii
Mediterranean love grass
Swallen's lovegrass
(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.
35-70 cm, erect, with glandular bands below the nodes.
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.
hairy on the margins and at the apices, hairs to 4 mm;
ligules 0.2-0.5 mm;
blades (8)10-25(30) cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, sometimes also sparsely hairy, hairs to 4 mm.
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.
12-30 cm long, 5-16 cm wide, ovate, open, an oblique glandular ring present below the lowest rachis node;
primary branches 2-10 cm, diverging 10-70° from the rachises, flexible;
pulvini glabrous;
pedicels 1.5-14 mm, divergent, with a glandular band.
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.
5-16 mm long, 1.2-2.3 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, plumbeous to dark reddish-purple, with 5-25 florets;
disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.
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.
ovate, membranous to hyaline;
lower glumes 1.1-1.5 mm;
upper glumes 1.4-2 mm;
lemmas 1.5-2.5 mm, ovate, membranous, strongly keeled, keels without glands, lateral veins conspicuous, apices acute;
paleas 1.2-2.1 mm, hyaline, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse to truncate;
anthers 3, 0.3-0.5 mm, purplish.
0.4-0.7 mm, ellipsoid, not grooved, smooth to faintly striate, light brown.
0.8-1.1 mm, rectangular-prismatic to ellipsoid, somewhat laterally compressed, with a well-developed adaxial groove, smooth, faintly striate, mostly opaque, light reddish-brown.
= 40.
= 84.
Eragrostis barrelieri
Eragrostis swallenii
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 swallenii grows in sandy sites along coastal grasslands and roadsides, often with Andropogon and Spartina, at 30-150 m. Its range extends around the Gulf coast from Texas to Mexico.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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