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from:  A Field Guide to the Grasses of New Mexico  Second Edition Kelly W. Allred  Agricultural Experimental Station New Mexico State University 1997

Eragrostis (love grass)  (Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae)

Inflorescence a panicle.  Spikelets serveral-flowered;  the glumes, lemmas, and grains disarticulate, often leaving the paleas attached to the rachilla.  Lemmas 3-nerved, awnless.  Eragrostis poaeoides Beauv. E. pilosa (L.) Beuv., and E. lugens Nees have been reported for the state but no specimens of these specis from New Mexico have been located.

1  Plants annual.

  2 Plants with stolons, rooting at the nodes and forming mats…E hypnoides (Lam.) B.S.P. Teal Lovegrass.  Native, annual, sand and mud bars along streams and lakeshores; uncommon

and Cindy…it goes on and on…this POETRY, these magic words about Lovegrass, the 19 species.

i love to read this aloud to myself.  it makes everything fall into some kind of crazy place.  They are clump grasses, that live by waiting for rain.  just waiting.  like just going.  they wait and then they Go.

Love….