View source for Eragrostis pectinacea

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|accepted_name=Eragrostis pectinacea
|accepted_authority=(Michx.) Nees
|publications=
|common_names=Tufted lovegrass;Eragrostide pecttnee
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis pectinacea
|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 pectinacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 81
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted, without innovations, without glandular pits. <b>Culms</b> 10-80 cm, erect to geniculate or decumbent below, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> hirsute at the apices, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm; blades 2-20 cm long, 1-4.5 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous and smooth, adaxial surfaces scabridulous. <b>Panicles</b> 5-25 cm long, 3-12(15) cm wide, ovoid to pyramidal, usually open, sometimes contracted; primary branches 0.6-8.5 cm, appressed or diverging to 80° from the rachises, solitary or paired at the lowest 2 nodes; pulvini glabrous or sparsely hairy; pedicels 1-7 mm, flexible, appressed to widely divergent, sometimes capillary. <b>Spikelets</b> 3.5-11 mm long, 1.2-2.5 mm wide, linear-oblong to narrowly lanceolate, plumbeous, yellowish-brown, or dark reddish-purple, with 6-22 florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. <b>Glumes</b> subulate to ovate-lanceolate, hyaline; lower glumes 0.5-1.5 mm, at least 1/2 as long as the adjacent lemmas; upper glumes 1-1.7 mm, usually broader than the lower glumes; lemmas 1-2.2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, hyaline to membranous, grayish-green proximally, reddish-purple distally, lateral veins moderately conspicuous, apices acute; paleas 1-2 mm, hyaline to membranous, keels scabridulous, apices obtuse; anthers 3, 0.2-0.7 mm, purplish. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.5-1.1 mm, pyriform, slightly laterally compressed, smooth, faintly striate, brownish. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Wash.;Wis.;Del.;Ill.;Ohio;Utah;Virgin Islands;D.C.;Ark.;Kans.;Minn.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;Pa.;Ga.;Ky.;Mich.;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;S.C.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Ala.;Miss.;N.C.;Ind.;Iowa;Md.;Ariz.;Idaho;Mo.
|discussion=<p><i>Eragrostis pectinacea</i> is native from southern Canada to Argentina. In the Flora region, it grows in disturbed sites such as roadsides, railroad embankments, gardens, and cultivated fields, at 0-1200 m.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long
|[[Eragrostis pectinacea var. tracyi|Eragrostis pectinacea var. tracyi]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Anthers 0.2-0.4 mm long.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pedicels appressed, rarely diverging to 20° from the branches
|[[Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea|Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pedicels widely divergent, usually diverging 20-60° from the branches
|[[Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima|Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima]]
|}
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name=Eragrostis pectinacea
|authority=(Michx.) Nees
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Wash.;Wis.;Del.;Ill.;Ohio;Utah;Virgin Islands;D.C.;Ark.;Kans.;Minn.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;Pa.;Ga.;Ky.;Mich.;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;S.C.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Ala.;Miss.;N.C.;Ind.;Iowa;Md.;Ariz.;Idaho;Mo.
|reference=None
|publication title=
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|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_130.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis pectinacea
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