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Eragrostis minor
Also called Lesser love-grass, Small Love Grass, Low Lovegrass, Small Stink Grass, Little Love Grass
Little lovegrass is a small annual grass that colonises disturbed, open ground such as verges, rail embankments and cracks in pavement. It is a weed rather than a garden plant, and grows easily from seed in sandy or gravelly soil.
Eragrostis minor, the little lovegrass or smaller stinkgrass, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native to most of the subtropical and warm temperate Old World, and introduced to North America, South America, and Australia. Preferring disturbed open places with little competition, and sandy or gravelly soils, it is often found growing on rail embankments, road verges, cracks in sidewalks, and waste areas. Its seeds are edible, but quite small and difficult to harvest and handle, so it is usually regarded as a famine food.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eragrostis minor 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.
