Eragrostis spectabilis
| Eragrostis spectabilis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Eragrostis |
| Species: | E. spectabilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis (Pursh) Steud.[1]
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Eragrostis spectabilis, known as purple lovegrass,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native from southern Canada to northeastern Mexico. It was first described by Frederick Traugott Pursh in 1813 as Poa spectabilis, and transferred to Eragrostis by Ernst von Steudel in 1840.[1]
It is readily eaten by browsing and grazing animals.[2]
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Categories:
- Eragrostis
- Flora of Manitoba
- Flora of Ontario
- Flora of Quebec
- Flora of Colorado
- Flora of Wyoming
- Flora of the North-Central United States
- Flora of the Northeastern United States
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of New Mexico
- Flora of Texas
- Flora of the Southeastern United States
- Flora of Northeastern Mexico
- Plants described in 1813
- Chloridoideae stubs