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Brown's Love Grass

Eragrostis brownii

Also called Common Love Grass, Lovegrass

Brown's Love Grass
Photo: John Tann from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Brown's lovegrass is a tufted perennial grass of woodland and pasture, growing up to about 60 cm tall. It is a hardy, undemanding grass suited to open, sunny sites.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water when the soil is dry in the growing season; tolerates dry spells once established.
Soil
Well-drained soil, tolerant of poor and sandy ground.
Temperature
Tolerates warm seasonally dry tropical to subtropical conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to Easter I.
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eragrostis brownii is a widespread species of grass known as Browns lovegrass. Found in Australia and New Zealand, it may be seen growing in woodland or pasture. The grass may grow up to 60 cm (24 in) tall. The specific epithet brownii is named in honour of the Scottish botanist Robert Brown.

Other Eragrostis plants

Love Grass · Sticky Love Grass · Water Lovegrass · Thalia lovegrass · Stinkgrass · Gophertail lovegrass · Eragrostis condensata · Weeping lovegrass · Eragrostis desertorum · Mallee Love Grass · African lovegrass · Field lovegrass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eragrostis brownii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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