Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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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.
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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.
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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|