Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : erapi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Eragrostis gracilis Velen.
Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: jersey love-grass
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Behaartes Liebesgras ; ES : pasto pelillo ; FR : éragrostis poilu ; IT : panicella pelosa ; PT : ; EN : jersey love-grass ;
Biological type: Annual
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Seedling:
- Shoot rolled, leaf sheath terete.
- Leaf blade circa 10 times longer than wide, leaf more or less hairy.
- Ligule surrounded with a ring of hairs, auricles absent, basal tufts of hairs on each side of the leaf blade.
- Height: 10-50 cm. Plant tufted with a fibrous root.
- Stems geniculate -ascending, simple or branched at the base.
- Leaves lower with dissymetrical teeth. Later leaves with a narrow blade, parallel margins, glabrous and not warty on borders. Lower node of the panicle with several whorled and distant branches. No gland on margins.
- Inflorescence : not branched. Spikelets 1 mm broad with 4-15 florets on 2 rows.
- Fruits : Caryopsis furrowless on the opposite side of the scutellum. Lemma 1 to 1.5 mm.
- Rare in crops.
-- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all the other species of Eragrostis .
- Biological type: Annual.
Mistake with: Eragrostis
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
