Eragrostis hypnoides

Creeping love grass, Creeping Love Grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: annual · Native

Creeping love grass is a native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, central Sierra Nevada Foothills, Central Valley, and San Francisco Bay Area in sandy or muddy areas near streams and lakes at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from July to September, this grass produces small, translucent spikelets 5 to 10 millimeters long in compact elliptic clusters. Growing with creeping stems that branch and root at nodes, it forms matted patches with delicate, flat or inrolled leaf blades 0.5 to 5 centimeters long. Its leaves are slender, ranging from 0.8 to 5.5 millimeters wide, often slightly hairy on the upper surface. The fruit is a tiny, light brown seed approximately 0.5 millimeters long, slightly flattened and elliptic in shape.

Habitat: Sand or mud near streams, lakes

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, c SNF, GV, SnFrB

California counties: Colusa, Butte, Sacramento, Lake, Humboldt, Napa, Marin, Amador, Siskiyou, Madera, San Joaquin, El Dorado, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Sonoma, Tehama, Monterey, Contra Costa, Glenn, Kings, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare, Ventura, Santa Cruz, Yolo, Yuba, Alameda, Stanislaus, Sutter, Solano

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.