Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn.

  • Description

    Species Description - Annual; culms slender, densely tufted, erect or ascending, 1-4 dm. high. Sheaths commonly with a tuft of hairs at the top, their margins usually cilate; leaf-blades 2-10 cm. long, 4 mm. wide or less; panicle-branches spreading or ascending; spikelets about 2 mm. long, 4-8-flowered, the palets ciliate with very short hairs.

  • Discussion

    Distribution and ecology : Waste places and cultivated grounds, New Providence and Inagua : Georgia and Florida: West Indies; tropical continental America: Old World Tropics. Recorded by Hitchcock as E. major Retz, but written up by him on the label of his Inagua specimen as E. minor. Plumed Love-geass.

  • Distribution

    New Providence and Inagua : Georgia and Florida: West Indies; tropical continental America: Old World Tropics.

    Inagua Bahamas South America| Georgia United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|