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Indian Lovegrass
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Indian Lovegrass
A Native Photo: Sonu Kumar
Common name: Indian Lovegrass, Hairy Lovegrass • Hindi: चिड़ी घास • Urdu: Nika sanwak
Botanical name: Eragrostis pilosa    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Poa pilosa, Eragrostis verticillata, Eragrostis tenuiflora

Indian Lovegrass is an annual grass growing up to 70 cm tall. The narrow leaves are up to 20 cm long. Both stem and leaves usually have scattered glandular pits. The ligule is a short fringe of hairs. Flowers are borne in an open panicle with branches each up to 10 cm long. The lowest branches are whorled about the stem. The narrow, grayish to purple-green spikelets are up to a cm long and each can contain up to 10-17 florets. Indian Lovegrass is found in almost whole of Asia and Africa.

Identification credit: Manoj Chandran, J.M. Garg Photographed in Bundi, Rajasthan.

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