View source for Eragrostis hirsuta

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|accepted_name=Eragrostis hirsuta
|accepted_authority=(Michx.) Nees
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|common_names=Bigtop lovegrass
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|name=Eragrostis hirsuta var. laevivaginata
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis hirsuta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eragrostis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eragrostis hirsuta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 95
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, with innovations and hardened bases, without rhizomes, not glandular. <b>Culms</b> (30)45-100 cm, erect, glabrous below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> rarely glabrous, apices and distal margins usually hairy, sometimes also densely hairy basally, dorsally, and on the collars, hairs to 6 mm, papillose-based; ligules 0.2-0.4 mm; blades 25-60 cm long, 3-8(11) mm wide, flat to loosely involute, usually glabrous, adaxial surfaces sometimes hairy basally. <b>Panicles</b> 25-85 cm long, 15-40 cm wide, broadly ovate, open; primary branches mostly 4-35(45) cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, capillary; pulvini glabrous or hairy; pedicels 2-28 mm, divergent. <b>Spikelets</b> 2-4(5) mm long, 1-1.7 mm wide, lanceolate, greenish with purplish tinges, with 2-6 florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. <b>Glumes</b> lanceolate, hyaline to membranous; lower glumes 1.1-2 mm; upper glumes 1.5-2.8 mm, apices acuminate to acute; lemmas 1.6-2.4 mm, ovate, membranous, hyaline near the margins, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute; paleas 1.2-2.2 mm, hyaline, bases not projecting beyond the lemmas, apices acute to obtuse; anthers 3, 0.3-0.8 mm, purplish. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.8-1 mm, rectangular-prismatic, somewhat laterally compressed, with or without a well-developed adaxial groove, striate, opaque, reddish-brown. <b>2n</b> = 100.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;W.Va.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Okla.;Ky.;Fla.;Ohio
|discussion=<p>Eragrostis hirsuta grows in sandy clay loams on the coastal plain and along roadsides, at 0-150 m, usually in association with Pinus palustris and Quercus. Its range extends from the southeastern United States through eastern Mexico to Guatemala and Belize.</p>
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name=Eragrostis hirsuta
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|authority=(Michx.) Nees
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|synonyms=Eragrostis hirsuta var. laevivaginata
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik and Cindy Roché
|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;W.Va.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Okla.;Ky.;Fla.;Ohio
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis hirsuta
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