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|accepted_name=Eragrostis minor
|accepted_authority=Host
|publications=
|common_names=Little lovegrass;Eragrostide faux-paturin
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eragrostis poaeoides
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|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis minor
|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 minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 85
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted, without innovations. <b>Culms</b> 10-45 cm, erect to decumbent, sometimes with a ring of glandular tissue below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> sometimes glandular on the midveins, hairy at the apices, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate; blades 1.5-10 cm long, 1-3(4) mm wide, flat, glabrous or sparsely white-hairy, margins sometimes with crateriform glands. <b>Panicles</b> 4-20 cm long, 2.2-8(10) cm wide, ovate, open to contracted, rachises sometimes with glandular spots or pits below the nodes, rarely with a glandular ring, glands usually dull, greenish-gray to stramineous; primary branches 0.5-6 cm, diverging 20-100° from the rachises; pulvini glabrous or hairy; pedicels 1-4 mm, stiff, straight, divergent, usually with a distal ring of crateriform glands. <b>Spikelets</b> 4-7(11) mm long, 1.1-2.2 mm wide, narrowly ovate, mostly reddish-purple to greenish, occasionally grayish, with 7-12(20) florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. <b>Glumes</b> broadly ovate, membranous; lower glumes 0.9-1.4 mm; upper glumes 1.2-1.6 mm; lemmas 1.4-1.8 mm, broadly ovate, membranous, keels occasionally with 1-2 crateriform glands, apices acute to obtuse; paleas 1.3-1.7 mm, hyaline, keels smooth or scabridulous, scabridities to 0.1 mm, apices obtuse to acute; anthers 2, 0.2-0.3 mm, reddish-brown. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.4-0.7 mm, ellipsoid, not grooved, striate, light brown. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wash.;Del.;D.C.;Wis.;W.Va.;Conn.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Nebr.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Md.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.;S.Dak.
|discussion=<p><i>Eragrostis minor</i> is a European species that now grows in gravelly roadsides and disturbed sites, especially near railroad yards, at 20-1600 m in southern Canada and the contiguous United States.</p>
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name=Eragrostis minor
|authority=Host
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eragrostis poaeoides
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Wash.;Del.;D.C.;Wis.;W.Va.;Conn.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Nebr.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Md.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.;S.Dak.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis minor
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