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Eragrostis curvula (weeping lovegrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Eragrostis curvula is a species of grass known by the common name weeping lovegrass. Other common names include Boer lovegrass, curved lovegrass, Catalina lovegrass, and African lovegrass. It is native to southern Africa. It is an introduced species on other continents.
View Wikipedia Record: Eragrostis curvula

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Mid Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [1]  Medium
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [1]  5 months 10 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Summer
Growth Form [1]  Bunch
Growth Period [1]  Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Apomictic, Wind
Propagation [1]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Slow
Root Depth [1]  14 inches (36 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [1]  High
Seeds Per [1]  1482317 / lb (3267952 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [3]  Grass
Usage [2]  A deep-rooted plant, it is considered excellent for protecting terraces and for grassing water channels and is valuable for erosion control; In Lesotho, the plant is used to make baskets, brooms, hats, ropes, and candles;
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  None
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Height [2]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 6 Low Temperature: -10 F° (-23.3 C°) → 0 F° (-17.8 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate
Water Use [1]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [1]  Dense
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous
View Plants For A Future Record : Eragrostis curvula

Protected Areas

Predators

Antidorcas marsupialis (springbok)[4]
Antonina graminis (felted grass coccid)[5]
Equus zebra (mountain zebra)[6]
Ourebia ourebi (oribi)[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Antidorcas marsupialis, James W. Cain III, Paul R. Krausman, and Heather L. Germaine, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 753, pp. 1–7 (2004)
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Equus zebra, B. L. Penzhorn, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 314, pp. 1-7 (1988)
♦ 7Food preferences of oribi Ourebia ourebi in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, B.K. REILLY, G.K. THERON and J. DU P. BOTHMA, Koedoe 33(1): 55-61 (1990)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0