Species Eragrostis virescens
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There aren’t any identifications of Eragrostis virescens.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Eragrostis:
Gk. eros = love; agrostis = grass; allegedly referring to the ‘graceful heart-shaped spikelets’, but also the ‘graceful dancing spikelet’ and ‘female aroma of the inflorescences of many species’; ‘love grass’.
Etymology of virescens:
From the Latin for 'growing green' or 'verdent' or 'becoming green'. Frequently used as an adjective to describe the green colour of the flowers.
Scientific name:
Eragrostis virescens J. Presl
Common names:
Chilean Love Grass
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Synonym status:
Annual to 70 cm. Leaves linear-lanceolate, margins scabrid. Spikelets in an open panicle, 3--4.5 c. 1 mm. Dec.--Mar. Disturbed sandy soils, NW, SW, KM, SE (S American weed).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Eragrostis virescens.