Purple Lovegrass

Eragrostis spectabilis (Pursh) Steud.

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲ cluster of plants in flower in a pasture

▲▼ mature plants

▲▼ top views of mature plants through open panicles

▲ panicle

▲ spikelets on panicle

 ▼ ligule and  ▲ collar region

Purple Lovegrass: 

·         perennial warm-season grass with short rhizomes, light green to medium green, mostly smooth leaves (may be hairy on top of leaf blade at base of blade)

·         inflorescences large, spreading panicles with purplish spikelets (inflorescence similar to witchgrass)

·         found in sandy or dry soils, pastures, roadsides, non-crop areas