Sand Lovegrass Plant
Description:
Photograph of a sand lovegrass plant. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Sand Lovegrass – (Eragrostis trichodes) – A vigorous, long lived, native bunch grass, occurs on the sandy sokls [sic] of the central southern parts of the Great Plains. Plants normally grow to 3 to 6 feet. The elongated panicles are sometimes half as tall as the plant and have a distinctive purple color. Leafy foliage, primarily basal, is abundant. Roots are vigorous, spreading, and deeply penetrating, and therefore of…
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Date:
September 13, 1949
Creator:
Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner:
Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society