Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3946

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Rare

Look for it on sandy shores, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Panicle often purplish
Inflorescence a dense, spikelike panicle

FRUIT:
Grain lustrous red
Grain

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Eragrostis ciliaris   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-11-003:
 Eragrostis ciliaris   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
 Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Eragrostis ciliaris

 

COMMON NAME:
 gophertail lovegrass

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image of Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris, gophertail lovegrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_erci2_001_lvd

        

image of Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris, gophertail lovegrass

Keith Bradley    kab_e_ciliaris_71529

October    Miami-Dade County    FL

Spikelets 6-12 flowered, 2-4mm long; keels of palea stiffly long-ciliate, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States.