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.