Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Carolina Lovegrass Habit: Tufted annual resembling E. pilosa. Culms: 10-40 cm. tall, smooth, slender, densely-tufted, ascending or spreading from a decumbent base, branching below. Blades: 4-9 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide or more, flat, soon involute, rough above, margins slightly rough. Sheaths: Shorter than the internodes, pilose at the throat. Ligule: Dense ring of hairs about 1 mm. long. Inflorescence: Panicles exserted or partly included, mostly ovate, open, 7-20 cm. long, axis somewhat angular, flexuous, the spikelets usually loosely imbricate, appressed on the branches. Spikelets: 5-15-flowered, at maturity 3-8 mm. long, numerous, mostly linear, dark lead-green, shining, often longer than their pedicels. Glumes: 2, acute, unequal, first about 1.2 mm. long, the second 1.8 mm. long. Lemmas: Acute, firm, about 1.5-1.6 mm. long, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves prominent, the rachilla not or scarcely exposed. Palea: Slightly shorter than its lemma, arched, ciliate, persistent. Fruit: Grain 0.8 mm. long. Kansas Range: Nearly throughout. Remarks: Quite often a weed. The name E. pectinacea has been misapplied to E. spectabilis. Synonyms: Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Nees ex Steud. var. pectinacea Eragrostis caroliniana auct. non (Spreng.) Scribn. Eragrostis diffusa Buckl. Eragrostis purshii hort. ex Schrad.