Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Teal Lovegrass Habit: Extensively creeping, mat forming tufted annual. Culms: 5-45 cm. long, branched, tufted, creeping and rooted at the lower nodes, with short erect or ascending panicle-bearing branches 5-12 cm. high. Blades: 1-4 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, flat, or soon involute, aristate, glabrous or scabrous or pubescent on the upper surface. Sheaths: Mostly shorter than the internodes, loose, sparsely ciliate, glabrous or pubescent. Ligule: A ring of hairs about 0.5 mm. long. Inflorescence: Panicles numerous, of many subcapitate clusters, loosely few-flowered, 1-5 cm. long. Spikelets: Perfect, green becoming pale, 10-15-flowered, 6-20 mm. long, 1.5-1.8 mm. wide, flattened, the green nerves prominent. Glumes: 2, acute, the first narrow, usually 0.5-1 mm. long, the second broader, 1-1.5 mm. long. Lemmas: About 1.5-2 mm. long; nearly or quire glabrous, acute, 3-nerved, lateral nerves prominent. Palea: About half as long as its lemma. Anthers: About 0.2 mm. long. Fruit: Grain 0.5 mm. long, oblong, amber colored. Habitat: Moist, sandy or gravelly riverbanks or wet ground. August-September. Kansas Range: East half Remarks: Mats on river flood plains often quite extensive.