''Eragrostis hypnoides'' is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

known by the common name teal lovegrass. It is native to the Americas from Canada to Argentina. It is found in moist areas near water in substrates of sand or mud.

Description

''Eragrostis hypnoides'' is a mat-forming, creeping annual, rooting at

stolon In biology, stolons (from Latin '' stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms. They may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton; typically, animal stolons are external s ...

s and sending up short erect stem tips to about 10 centimeters in height at maximum. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

s atop the erect portions have small spikelets about a centimeter long which are yellow-green to slightly purple.

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment - ''Eragrostis hypnoides''Grass Manual Treatment''Eragrostis hypnoides'' - Photo gallery
hypnoides Grasses of North America Grasses of South America Plants described in 1791 {{Chloridoideae-stub