Close-headed Love-grass

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Eragrostis elongata

Short tufted perennial grass 10-20 cm tall, hairless flowering stems 35-60 cm high. Inrolled or folded leaves to 20 cm long with rough edges and upper surface. Flowerheads a narrow spike 20 cm long, white to purplish in colour, with dense clusters of stalkless seedheads.

Details
Flora Type
Grasses
Other Common Names
Clustered Love-grass
Distinctive Features

Flowers in tight narrow compact clusters along the stem, taller than the leaves.
Biology

Perennial. Moist heavy soils on woodlands in open country, drier grasslands and gibber plains. Likes sandy loams and clay soils. Tolerates inundation.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Dec-Mar
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Eragrostis
Species
elongata

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

All mainland states. Also New Guinea.

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native