Eragrostis mexicana

Mexican lovegrass

Family: Poaceae · Type: annual · Native

Mexican lovegrass is a California native annual grass found in open grasslands and disturbed areas. Flowering from July to October, this plant produces gray-green to reddish spikelets in open, branching inflorescences 10 to 35 centimeters long. Growing with widely spreading to erect stems 15 to 100 centimeters tall, it features distinctive glandular depressions below the nodes. Its leaf blades are flat, 5 to 25 centimeters long and 4 to 7 millimeters wide, occasionally hairy underneath. The small spikelets contain 5 to 15 florets with lemmas 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters long, creating a delicate, airy appearance.

California counties: San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Inyo, Mono, Riverside, El Dorado, Sacramento, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Kern, San Francisco, Yolo, San Diego, Butte, Merced, Santa Cruz, Monterey

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