Eragrostis lutescens

Six-weeks love grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: annual · Native

Six-weeks love grass is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada foothills and San Joaquin Valley in sandy margins of streams and lakes at elevations below 1,050 meters. Flowering from July to October, this delicate grass produces yellow spikelets with purple-tinged tips in narrow erect inflorescences 2 to 10 centimeters long. Growing with ascending or erect stems 5 to 25 centimeters tall, it features distinctive round glands below its nodes and a unique growth pattern. Its narrow leaf blades are 2 to 10 centimeters long, typically 1 to 3 millimeters wide, and have lower surface veins covered with round glands. The spikelets contain 8 to 14 florets with prominent lemma veins and tiny purple anthers approximately 0.2 millimeters long.

Habitat: Sandy margins of streams, lakes

Bloom period: Jul-Oct

Elevation: < 1050 m

Bioregions: s SNF, SnJV

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