Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis elliottii
weeping love grass
Elliott's lovegrass, field lovegrass
(45)60-150 cm, erect, glabrous or glandular.
25-80 cm, erect, glabrous and shiny below the basal nodes.
with scattered hairs, hairs to 9 mm;
ligules 0.6-1.3 mm;
blades 12-50(65) cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, sometimes scabridulous, adaxial surfaces with scattered hairs basally, hairs to 7 mm.
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.
16-35(40) cm long, (4)8-24 cm wide, ovate to oblong, open;
primary branches 3-14 cm, diverging 10-80° from the rachises;
pulvini glabrous or not;
pedicels 0.5-5 mm, appressed, flexible.
(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.
4-8.2(10) mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, plumbeous to yellowish, with 3-10 florets;
disarticulation irregular to acropetal, proximal rachilla segments persistent.
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, hyaline;
lower glumes 1.2-2.6 mm;
upper glumes 2-3 mm;
lemmas 1.8-3 mm, ovate, membranous, lateral veins conspicuous, apices acute;
paleas 1.8-3 mm, hyaline to membranous, apices obtuse;
anthers 3, 0.6-1.2 mm, reddish-brown.
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.
1-1.7 mm, ellipsoid to obovoid, dorsally compressed, adaxial surfaces with a shallow, broad groove or ungrooved, smooth, mostly translucent, light brown, bases often greenish.
0.6-0.8 mm, ovoid to ellipsoid, finely striate, reddish-brown.
= 40, 50.
= unknown.
Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis elliottii
Eragrostis curvula is native to southern Africa. It is often used for reclamation because it provides good ground cover but, once introduced, it easily escapes. In the Flora region, it grows on rocky slopes, at the margins of woods, along roadsides, and in waste ground, at 20-2400 m, usually in pine-oak woodlands, and yellow pine and mixed hardwood forests.
(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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