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Eragrostis peruviana

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Peru to N. Chile, Desventurados Is.
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eragrostis peruviana is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native to Peru to northern Chile, including the Desventuradas Islands. It was first described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1787 as Poa peruviana, and transferred to Eragrostis by Carl Bernhard von Trinius in 1830.

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 peruviana 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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