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Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees

Common Name: LOVE GRASS
Coefficient of Conservatism: 0
Coefficient of Wetness: 0
Wetness Index: FAC
Physiognomy: Nt A-Grass

Sandy ground, roadsides, railroads, fields, and disturbed places, either dry or moist; river banks. Presumably native, at least in the southern part of the state.

A species often confused with E. capillaris, E. frankii, and E. pilosa, but distinctive in its larger spikelets on appressed pedicels, the lemmas strongly nerved. The paleas are generally even more persistent than in other species, and are conspicuous on old panicles from which the lemmas and grains have fallen. Almost all our plants are var. pectinacea. Variety miserrima (E. Fourn.) Reeder (E. tephrosanthes of Michigan Flora) is known from a few old collections, and differs in having the mature pedicels spreading, rather than appressed as in var. pectinacea.

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Alcona
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Dickinson
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Hillsdale
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Ingham
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Iosco
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Jackson
Kalamazoo
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Van Buren
Washtenaw
Wayne
Wexford

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 15, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/2113