Eragrostis elliottii, commonly known as Elliott's lovegrass, is a perennial graminoid in the family Poaceae. In the United States, it is found from North Carolina to southern Florida, west to eastern Texas. It is also found in the West Indies and in central Mexico south to Belize. It grows in maritime wet grasslands, inland edges of brackish marshes and freshwater tidal marshes, ultisol wet pine savannas, and calcareously-influenced wet pine savannas.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Elliott's lovegrass being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Eragrostis refracta
- Muhlenbergia expansa
- Eragrostis trichodes
- Panicum queenslandicum
- Eragrostis intermedia
- Sporobolus floridanus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Eragrostis
- Species
- Eragrostis elliottii
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