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Smallflower lovegrass

Eragrostis parviflora

Also called Weeping Love Grass

Smallflower lovegrass
Photo: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
Australia, New Guinea to New Caledonia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eragrostis parviflora is a widespread species of grass known as weeping lovegrass. Growing to 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) metres tall, it may be found in many parts of Australia and New Caledonia. Leaves are strongly ribbed, hairless or with marginal hairs; the leaf blade may be flat or inrolled.

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 parviflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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