View source for Eragrostis curvula

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|accepted_name=Eragrostis curvula
|accepted_authority=(Schrad.) Nees
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|common_names=Weeping lovegrass
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|name=Eragrostis curvula var. conferta
|authority=unknown
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|name=Eragrostis chloromelas
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis curvula
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eragrostis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eragrostis curvula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 76
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, forming innovations at the basal nodes, without glands. <b>Culms</b> (45)60-150 cm, erect, glabrous or glandular. <b>Sheaths</b> 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. <b>Panicles</b> 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. <b>Spikelets</b> 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. <b>Glumes</b> 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. <b>Caryopses</b> 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. <b>2n</b> = 40, 50.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>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.</p>
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name=Eragrostis curvula
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|authority=(Schrad.) Nees
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|synonyms=Eragrostis curvula var. conferta;Eragrostis chloromelas
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik and Cindy Roché
|distribution=Wash.;Del.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Puerto Rico;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ariz.;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Oreg.;Kans.;Okla.;Miss.;Ky.;N.C.;S.C.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis curvula
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