Eragrostis pilosa (L.) India Lovegrass

Habit: Weedy tufted annual. Culms: Slender, erect or ascending from a diffusely branching decumbent base, tufted, 10-50 cm. tall. Blades: Flat, 3-15 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide. Sheaths: Shorter than the internodes, usually pilose at the summit. Ligule: Ring of short hairs. Inflorescence: Panicle delicate, open, becoming somewhat diffuse, 5-20 cm. long, its branches capillary, spreading, the lower fascicled, their axils usually sparingly long pilose. Spikelets: Solitary or few on the branchlets, gray to purplish black, linear, scarcely compressed, usually shorter than the pedicels, 3-9-flowered, 3-5 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide. Glumes: 2, acute, first less than 1 mm. long, the second a little more than 1 mm. long. Lemmas: Loosely imbricate, rachilla more or less exposed, rounded on the back, acute, the lower ones 1.5 mm. long, upper less, 0.5 mm. wide, nerves obscure. Palea: Shorter than its lemma. Fruit: Grain purplish, about 0.6 mm. long and 0.3 mm. wide, oblong. Habitat: Cultivated ground and waste places. July-September. Kansas Range: Throughout. Remarks: Weed. Synonyms: Eragrostis multicaulis Steud. Eragrostis perplexa L.H. Harvey