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Teal lovegrass

Eragrostis hypnoides

Also called Teal Love Grass, Creeping Lovegrass, Smooth Creeping Lovegrass, Teel Lovegrass, Creeping Love Grass

Teal lovegrass
Photo: Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Public domain

Teal lovegrass is a low, creeping annual grass that forms mats and roots along its stems, usually found in damp sand or mud near water. It is grown mainly for its mat-forming habit in wet, sandy or boggy spots, and it stays under about 10 cm tall.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist or wet, and never let it dry out.
Soil
Moist sand or mud, or a sandy loam kept wet
Temperature
15–28 °C; tolerates cool temperate conditions but is frost-tender
How easy
Moderate
Native range
America
Climate
temperate

About

Eragrostis hypnoides is a species of grass known by the common name teal lovegrass. It is native to the Americas from Canada to Argentina. It is found in moist areas near water in substrates of sand or mud.

Other Eragrostis plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eragrostis hypnoides 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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