Eragrostis lehmanniana

Lehmann's love grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Lehmann's love grass is a naturalized perennial grass found in southern California and the Desert Mountains at elevations below 1,000 meters, commonly occurring along roadsides. Flowering from March to October, this plant produces small gray-green flowers in open, loose inflorescences 6 to 20 centimeters long. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 30 to 60 centimeters tall that are often abruptly bent at the lower nodes, it forms a spreading, branched habit. Its grass blades are narrow, 8 to 15 centimeters long and 1 to 3 millimeters wide, tapering to a rigid point. The plant produces small pale oblong fruits approximately 0.6 to 0.8 millimeters long.

Habitat: Roadsides

Bloom period: Mar-Oct

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: SCo, DMoj

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