View source for Eragrostis secundiflora

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|accepted_name=Eragrostis secundiflora
|accepted_authority=J. Presl
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|common_names=Red lovegrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis secundiflora
|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 secundiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 99
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, with innovations, without rhizomes, not glandular. <b>Culms</b> 30-75 cm, erect, glabrous below. <b>Sheaths</b> mostly glabrous, hairy at the apices, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.2-0.3 mm; blades 10-25(40) cm long, 1-5 mm wide, involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, sometimes also sparsely pilose. <b>Panicles</b> (3)5-30 cm long, 1-15 cm wide, from narrowly oblong, glomerate, and interrupted below to ovate and open; primary branches 0.5-12(16) cm, appressed or diverging up to 40° from the rachises, stiff; pulvini glabrous or sparsely hairy; pedicels 0-1(3) mm, appressed, flattened. <b>Spikelets</b> 6-16(23) cm long, 2.4-5 mm wide, ovate to linear-elliptic, flattened, stramineous, with reddish-purple margins or completely reddish-purple, with 10-45 florets; disarticulation basipetal, florets falling intact and before the glumes. <b>Glumes</b> ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, membranous; lower glumes 1.7-3 mm; upper glumes 2.2-4 mm, apices acuminate; lemmas 2-6 mm, ovate, membranous to leathery, apices usually acuminate or attenuate, sometimes acute; paleas 1.5-3 mm, membranous to leathery, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse, sometimes bifid; anthers 2, 0.2-0.5 mm, brownish. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.8-1.3 mm, ellipsoid, somewhat laterally flattened, smooth, reddish-brown. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;Kans.;Okla.;Colo.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;N.C.;Ala.;Nebr.;Tenn.;Ark.;Ga.;S.C.;Fla.;Mo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>There are two subspecies of E. secundiflora; plants from the Flora region belong to E. secundiflora subsp. oxylepis (Torrey) S.D. Koch. They grow in sandy soils, dunes, grasslands, beaches, and roadsides of the south¬ern United States and northern Mexico, at 0-1000 m. Eragrostis secundiflora J. Presl subsp. secundiflora grows in Mexico and Central and South America.</p>
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|authority=J. Presl
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Va.;Kans.;Okla.;Colo.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;N.C.;Ala.;Nebr.;Tenn.;Ark.;Ga.;S.C.;Fla.;Mo.;N.Mex.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis secundiflora
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