Participant Info

Species

Eragrostis pilosa [Eragrostic perplexa] [Eragrostic muticaulis] [Poa pilosa]

Family

Poaceae

CommonName

Indian lovegrass, Jersey lovegrass, hairy lovegrass

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1896

LatestDate

1976

Ecosystem

basin, urban

Geobotanical

UBasin

Counties

Alamosa

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

Alamosa (town)

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Indian lovegrass has been vouchered eight times from the Watershed, all around or in the town of Alamosa (the 1896 specimen is labeled "Alamosa, Conejos Co"). It prefers open, weedy, ruderal habitat, and can be found around ditches and in gardens. Although documented from all USA states except for Utah, Eragrostis pilosa is much less common than its closest relative, E. pectinacea. It has been reported from only three Rio Grande drainage counties in New Mexico (Allred et al, 2020 could find no authenticated specimens), and it is absent from the drainage in Texas except for where it flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

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