Weeping Love-grass

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Eragrostis parviflora


Erect or spreading grass with flowering stems to 130 cm high. Strongly ribbed, smooth inrolled or folded leaves to 20 cm long with rough edges and upper surface. Flowerheads a very narrow pyramid shape, 50 cm long, dark grey to purplish-green, with almost stalkless dense clusters (up to 18) of seedheads that adhere to the stem.


Details
Flora Type
Grasses
Distinctive Features

Large flowerhead.

Biology

Annual or occasionally perennial. Damp soils on floodplans and damp places.

Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Oct-Jun

Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Eragrostis
Species
parviflora

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native