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Eragrostis hypnoides is a species of grass known by the common name teal lovegrass. It is native to the Americas from Canada to Argentina. It is found in moist areas near water in substrates of sand or mud. Eragrostis hypnoides is a mat-forming, creeping annual, rooting at stolons and sending up short erect stem tips to about 10 centimeters in height at maximum. The inflorescences atop the erect portions have small spikelets about a centimeter long which are yellow-green to slightly purple. Eragrostis hypnoides is a mat-forming, creeping annual, rooting at stolons and sending up short erect stem tips to about 10 centimeters in height at maximum. The inflorescences atop the erect portions have small spikelets about a centimeter long which are yellow-green to slightly purple.
Grass
4 in Tall
Spreading
Slow
Green, Yellow
Summer
Adaptable, tolerant of sand, loam and clay.
Wetland-Riparian
Butterflies and moths supported
1 confirmed and 1 likely
Fiery Skipper
Hylephila phyleus
Sandhill Skipper
Polites sabuleti