Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis chaetophylla
(synonym of Eragrostis setifolia)
weeping love grass
neverfail lovegrass
(45)60-150 cm, erect, glabrous or glandular.
12-60 cm, erect, glabrous or hairy near the base, often shiny 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, summits shortly pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm;
ligules 0.3-0.5 mm, ciliate;
blades 3-11 cm long, 0.7-2 mm wide, involute or flat, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially.
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.
6-11 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, narrowly ovate, loosely contracted;
primary branches 1-3 cm, compact, appressed or diverging to 30° from the rachises, sometimes naked near the base;
pulvini glabrous;
pedicels 0.2-3 mm, diverging, scabridulous.
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.
3-6(15) mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, linear lanceolate, stramineous, with 9-30 florets;
disarticulation irregular or basipetal, 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.
subequal, 1-1.3 mm, ovate, membranous, apices obtuse to acute;
lemmas 1.4-1.6 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous, lateral veins conspicuous, green, sometimes obscure towards the apices, apices obtuse;
paleas 1.4-1.6 mm, hyaline, apices truncate, ciliolate;
anthers 3, 0.5-0.8 mm, yellowish.
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.
0.4-0.5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, strongly dorsally compressed, usually with a shallow dorsal groove, smooth to finely striate, mostly light brown, bases often greenish.
= 40, 50.
= unknown.
Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis chaetophylla
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 setifolia is an Australian species that was collected around the Santee Wool Combing Mill, Jamestown, Berkeley County, South Carolina, in 1958. It is not known to have spread from that location. There is no illustration of the species because it was a late addition to the treatment. For digital images, see http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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