Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees
Detail
- Family
- Poaceae
- Botanical Name
- Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees
- Common Name
- Weeping Lovegrass
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees
- Comments
- Commonly planted to retard erosion on steep banks, especially along Interstate highways and many smaller roads.
- Habitat
- Planted for erosion control along roads, spreading into large, conspicuous colonies on roadsides and sometimes into adjacent fields; has demonstrated a tendency to be invasive in sandhill areas of the se. Coastal Plain. Locally common throughout the Coastal Plain and Piedmont; less so in the mountains.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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