Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees
African Love Grass, Boer Love Grass · Bergsoetgras, Berg-Soetgras (Afr.)
Photo: AVNPlants
What’s in the name: Eragrostis: Greek "love" + "grass", the love grasses; curvula: "slightly curved".
“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Project Gutenberg
Short profile: detailed growing notes for this species are not yet available from SANBI sources.
Available from AVNPlants: see the availability list.
Family
Poaceae
Conservation status
Least Concern, SANBI Red List of South African Plants
Natural distribution & habitat
Widespread, also beyond South Africa; recorded in all nine provinces.
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Facts checked against: SANBI Red List of South African Plants, Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees (assessment 2005/06/30).