Eragrostis spectabilis (Purple Lovegrass)
Hairs at axils of inflorescence branches. Eragrostis spectabilis is a low-growing perennial clump-forming grass that produces long panicles of flowers on thin stems in late summer. As the flowers and later seeds mature the florets take on a deep pink color. When masses of these plants grow together the effect can be spectacular. When the seeds mature the stems will break off and be blown about scatereing seeds in new locations.
Habitat: dry sandy and gravelly soil in full sun.
''Eragrostis spectabilis'', known as purple lovegrass, 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.
