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Eragrostis hypnoides Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.

Teal lovegrass (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Eragrostis

Characteristics

Stoloniferous, widely spreading annual, forming dense mats; culms very slender, 5-10 cm. high; blades 1-2 cm. long, flat or becoming loosely involute, stiffly spreading; panicles pale, dense, subcapitate, 1-2 cm. long, nearly as broad; spikelets 5-12 mm. long, few-to many-flowered, on short stiff pedicels; glumes unequal, the first 1 mm. long, the second 1.5 mm. long, broader than the first; lemmas 1.5-2 mm. long, acute, rather broad at the base with thin margins; an-thers 0.2 mm. long.
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Annual; stems creeping, rooting at the nodes, forming mats, sending up short culms 5–15 cm; lf-blades 1–4 cm × 1–3 mm; infl ovoid to subcylindric, 2–8 cm; peduncle glabrous; pedicels 1–3 mm; spikelets linear, 10–35-fld; fls perfect; lemmas 1.5–2 mm, glabrous, shining, almost hyaline, falling individually from the intact rachilla, on which the paleas persist; anthers 0.3 mm. Mud-flats and sandy shores; throughout most of the U.S. except the arid or mountainous regions, s. to Arg.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.1
Root system creeping-root
Rooting depth (meter) 0.2
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
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Environment

Light 7-8
Soil humidity 5-8
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-9
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Images

Habit

Eragrostis hypnoides habit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Eragrostis hypnoides habit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Eragrostis hypnoides world distribution map, present in Åland Islands, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Micronesia (Federated States of), Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Eragrostis hypnoides threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:93112-2
WFO ID wfo-0000867855
COL ID 6G9Z2
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 764304
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Eragrostis hypnoides Neeragrostis hypnoides Poa dioica Poa hypnoides Poa mnioides Poa carinata Megastachya gouinii Megastachya hypnoides Erosion hypnoides Poa weigeltiana Eragrostis reptans var. contracta Eragrostis reptans var. laxior Eragrostis reptans var. pygmaea Poa hypnoides var. glabra Poa hypnoides var. laxa Poa hypnoides var. capitata Poa reptans var. caespitosa
WorldFloraDB 2024