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Red lovegrass

Eragrostis secundiflora

Also called Red Love Grass

Red lovegrass
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0

Red lovegrass is a perennial ornamental grass native to the southern United States, Mexico and northern South America, growing up to about 70 cm in prairies and open woodland. It is best grown in full sun and very well-drained, sandy soil, and it tolerates dry conditions once established.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, allowing the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, very well-drained soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below about 0 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
C. & S. U.S.A. to S. Trop. America
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eragrostis secundiflora (syn. Eragrostis oxylepis), red lovegrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native to the central and southern United States, Mexico, and northern South America. A perennial reaching at most 70 cm (28 in), it is found in prairies and open woodlands, typically in sandy soils. Its seeds are considerably larger than other species of Eragrostis.

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 secundiflora 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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