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Selected images for weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula )

Weeping lovegrass is a warm-season, perennial grass that can grow to 4 ft (1.2 m) tall. Leaves are arched, 1/10 in. (3-4 mm) wide, flat, with ciliate ligules. Sheaths have long hairs inside the upper margin and along the collar. Spikelets are nodding, 0.2-0.4 in. (4-10 mm) long, 0.1 in. (1.5-2 mm) wide and gray-green. Weeping lovegrass inhabits disturbed places such as roadsides and is native to South Africa. It has been planted for erosion control in the southwestern United States and is also used widely as an ornamental.


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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Plant(s)
Forest & Kim Starr
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Plant(s)
Forest & Kim Starr
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Plant(s)
Forest & Kim Starr
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Plant(s)
Forest & Kim Starr
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Plant(s)
Forest & Kim Starr
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Plant(s)
Forest & Kim Starr
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5307043

weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Plant(s)
USDA PLANTS Database
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Seed(s)
Steve Hurst
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Flower(s)
Joseph M. DiTomaso
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5387338

weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Stem(s)
Joseph M. DiTomaso
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Stem(s)
Joseph M. DiTomaso
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weeping lovegrass
Eragrostis curvula
Spikelet(s)
D. Walters and C. Southwick