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Eragrostis curvula
Also called African Love Grass, Weeping Love Grass, Boer Love Grass, Ermelo Love Grass, Weeping Grass
Weeping lovegrass is a tufting, long-lived perennial grass from southern Africa, grown for forage, erosion control and ornament. It is very tough and spreads readily, so it is often invasive where it is planted outside its native range.
Eragrostis curvula is a species of grass known by the common name weeping lovegrass. Other common names include Boer lovegrass, curved lovegrass, Catalina lovegrass, and African lovegrass.
It is native to southern Africa. It is an introduced species on other continents.
This grass is valuable as a forage for livestock in Africa, its native range. There are many ecotypes. Several of these ecotypes were collected and introduced in the United States as cultivars. The grass was first planted in the United States in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 1935. It was good for livestock, and its massive root network made it a good plant for erosion control.
Love Grass · Sticky Love Grass · Water Lovegrass · Thalia lovegrass · Brown's Love Grass · Stinkgrass · Gophertail lovegrass · Eragrostis condensata · Eragrostis desertorum · Mallee Love Grass · African lovegrass · Field lovegrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eragrostis curvula 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.
