Participant Info

Species

Eragrostis pectinacea [Eragrostis pilosa] [Poa pectinacea] [Eragrostis arida], etc.

Family

Poaceae

CommonName

tufted lovegrass

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1976

LatestDate

1992

Ecosystem

basin, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

UBasin

Counties

Alamosa

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

Alamosa (town)

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Tufted lovegrass has been vouchered twice in the Watershed, both times around the town of Alamosa in Alamosa Co (1976, 1992). Eragrostis pectinacea grows in late summer in open, low-elevation terrain, sometimes ruderal. In the USA it is the most wide spread of lovegrasses, documented from every state. It follows the Rio Grande drainage solidly through New Mexico down through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. Note that some of the vouchers named "Eragrostis pilosa" from the Watershed may be Eragrostis pectinace, since Weber and Wittmann (2001) include the second species in the first.

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