Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima
Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Steud. var. miserrima (Fourn.) J. Reeder
Desert Lovegrass, Desert Love Grass
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: ERPEMUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), PR (N), VI (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima
Spreading Lovegrass
Poaceae
Location: 500 m E of Harry Wurzbach Rd, on edge of sidewalk, N side of S Oakwell Farms Pky, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Description: Loosely tufted, diffuse annual. Culms-many, 15-50 cm long, spreading, some geniculate, Sheaths folded. Blades 2-5 mm broad, flat. Panicles ascending/nodding, 5-40 m long with numerous, pedicellary branchlets (1-5 mm long), appressed.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 10, 1994
Specimen number: 696
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1114
Accession Date: Feb 28, 1998
Accession Number: 104
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)
(Handwritten at top) "Eragrostis erosa Scribn. Floyd R. Waller Aug 1998"
In Common Name: "Spreading" lined out.
In description: "pectinacea var miserrima" crossed out and marginal:"chihuahua"
In description: "annual" circled and marginal: "perennial!"