Taxon: Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees

Common names:

• African love grass   (Source: Blumea 47:174. 2002) – English
  
• Boer love grass   (Source: Grass VarUSA [as E. curvula var. conferta]) – English
  
• weeping love grass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• oulandsgras   (Source: Grass SAfr ) – Afrikaans
  
• wan ye hua mei cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• eragrostide curvula   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• pasto llorón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• afrikanskt kärleksgräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass SAfr)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide F TE Afr)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Switzerland
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Federal District, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Sao Paulo
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. [= E. curvula var. conferta].
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Burkill, H. M. 1994. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 2:249.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kabelo, M. & D. Mafokate. 2004. A checklist of Botswana grasses. S. African Bot. Diversity Network Rep. 24:8.
• Lazarides, M. 1997. A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Austral. Syst. Bot. 10:111.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Peterson, P. M. & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2005. Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae: Eragrostidinae) from northeastern Mexico. Sida 21:1381–1383.
• Peterson, P. M. et al. 2001. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41:89.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–380.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 2002. Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47:173.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. 47:63.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eragrostis curvula.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eragrostis curvula.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eragrostis curvula.

Synonyms:

• (=) Eragrostis chloromelas Steud.
  (previously associated with 25 accessions)
• (=) "Eragrostis curvula var. ampla ined."
  
• (=) Eragrostis curvula var. conferta Nees
  (previously associated with 32 accessions)
• (=) Eragrostis curvula var. valida Stapf
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Eragrostis jeffreysii Hack.
  
• (=) Eragrostis robusta Stent
  
• (=) Eragrostis subulata Nees
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Poa curvula Schrad. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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