Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis scaligera
weeping love grass
tender lovegrass
(45)60-150 cm, erect, glabrous or glandular.
25-75 cm, erect, glabrous below the 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.
glabrous or with hairy apices, hairs to 4 mm;
ligules 0.1-0.3 mm, ciliate;
blades 4-8(18) cm long, 1-2 mm wide, involute, frequently deciduous, adaxial surfaces mostly glabrous, sometimes pilose 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.
terminal and axillary;
terminal panicles 5-15 cm long, (1)2-10(12) cm wide, narrowly ovate, open;
axillary panicles 2-5 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, usually contracted and partially to completely enclosed by the subtending sheath;
primary branches 1-10 cm, appressed or diverging up to 90° from the rachises, wiry;
pulvini glabrous or hairy;
pedicels 0.3-5 mm, appressed, flattened.
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.
6-15(27) mm long, 1.6-2.4 mm wide, ovate-lanceolate, plumbeous to greenish, often with a reddish-purple tinge, with 10-35(45) florets;
disarticulation acropetal, glumes first, then 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.
lanceolate to ovate, membranous;
lower glumes 1.4-2.1 mm;
upper glumes 1.6-2.2 mm;
lemmas (1.7)2-2.5 mm, broadly ovate, leathery, apices acute to acuminate;
paleas 1.1-1.7 mm, hyaline, apices obtuse to truncate;
anthers 2, 0.3-0.7 mm, reddish-purple.
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.
0.5-0.6 mm, globose, not grooved, smooth, light reddish-brown.
= 40, 50.
= 40.
Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis scaligera
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 scaligera is known from Lee and Collier counties, Florida, where it grows in sandy areas in the coastal scrub zone and along adjacent roadsides, at 0-10 m. It is native to French Guiana and Brazil.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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