Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis silveana
weeping love grass
Silveus' lovegrass
(45)60-150 cm, erect, glabrous or glandular.
45-60 cm, erect, often glandular below the nodes, sometimes viscid.
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.
often viscid, sometimes sparsely pilose, hairy at the apices, hairs to 6 mm;
ligules 0.2-0.3 mm;
blades 8-25 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous, sometimes viscid.
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.
20-35(42) cm long, 10-22 cm wide, broadly ovate, open, bases included in the uppermost leaf sheaths;
primary branches 5-14 cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, capillary, sometimes viscid, naked basally;
pulvini hairy, hairs to 6 mm;
pedicels (1)1.5-12 mm, diverging or appressed.
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.
(2.5)3-4.8 mm long, 0.9-1.4 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, reddish-purple, with 4-9 florets;
disarticulation basipetal, glumes 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, membranous;
lower glumes 0.9-1.2 mm;
upper glumes 1-1.3 mm;
lemmas 1.1-1.4 mm, ovate to lanceolate, membranous, 3-veined, apices acute;
paleas 1-1.4 mm, hyaline, not wider than the lemmas, apices obtuse;
anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm, purplish.
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, ellipsoid, terete in cross section, neither ridged nor grooved, faintly striate, reddish-brown.
= 40, 50.
= unknown.
Eragrostis curvula
Eragrostis silveana
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 silveana grows in various open habitats, from sandy prairies to clay loam flats, near roadsides, railroads, and fields at 0-100 m. Its range is limited to the coastal plain of Texas and northern Mexico. Morphologically, E. silveana is somewhat intermediate between E. spectabilis and E. curtipedicellata, and grows where the distribution of these two species overlaps.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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