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Lovegrass

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Lovegrass:Eragrostis paupera
Eragrostis paupera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Genus: Eragrostis
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Species

E. airoides
E. atropioides
E. atrovirens
E. bahiensis
E. barrelieri
E. capillaris
E. cilianensis
E. ciliaris
E. clelandii
E. cumingii
E. curtipedicellata
E. curvala
E. curvula var. conferta - Boer lovegrass
E. cylindriflora
E. deflexa
E. echinochloidea
E. echinocloidea
E. elliottii
E. elongata
E. erosa
E. fosbergii
E. frankii
E. gangetica
E. glutinosa
E. grandis
E. hirsuta
E. hosakae
E. hypnoides
E. intermedia
E. japonica
E. lehmanniana
E. × lehmanniana - Lehmann lovegrass
E. leptophylla
E. leptostachya
E. leptostachys
E. lugens
E. lutescens
E. mauiensis
E. mexicana
E. minor
E. monticola
E. obtusiflora
E. palmeri
E. parviflora
E. paupera
E. pectinacea
E. pilosa
E. plana
E. prolifera
E. refracta
E. scaligera
E. secundiflora
E. sessilispica
E. setifolia
E. silveana
E. spectabilis
E. spicata
E. suaveolens
E. superba
E. swallenii
E. tef - teff
E. tenella
E. tenuifolia
E. tremula
E. trichocolea
E. trichodes
E. trichophora
E. unioloides
E. urbaniana
E. variabilis
E. viscosa

Lovegrass is the genus Eragrostis of grass. Most species, if they are used for anything, are used for feeding livestock, but teff is eaten by humans, mostly in Ethiopia.E. clelandii and E. tremula are also recorded as foods eaten in times of famine, in Australia and Chad, respectively.

It is dispersed by passing animals; its seeds' hooks latch on to fur or hair, or to clothes.

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