Love Grass
By Ann MacDonald
Love Grass (Eragrostis) - Grasses, some of which are worth cultivating for their elegant feathery panicles. E.
Love grass
Eragrostis curvula 'Totnes Burgundy'
Genus: Eragrostis
Species: curvula
Cultivar: 'Totnes Burgundy' ...
Blue Love Grass
A willowy fine-textured warm season blue grass that blooms in June and maintains its fluffy inflorescences through September and October. We are very excited by the garden possibilities of this native grass! ...
Elliot's love grass is grass found among flatwoods, sandhills, and prairies from summer through fall. There are 30 varieties and species of Eragrostis in Florida (Wunderlin, 2003). Elliot's love grass occurs in the southeastern U.S.
From late spring until fall, Boer love grass puts on a glorious display as inflorescences that emerge silver and dry to gold dance up to 2 feet above the fine-textured clump of foliage. The show is shorter in humid climates.
Weeping Love Grass (Eragrostis curvula): This drought tolerant grass is commonly used for erosion control on highways, but is also very ornamental. Dark green, very fine textured foliage forms dense weeping clumps 1 foot tall and 2 to 3 feet wide.
It's right that Americans love grasses. The extent to which grassy plains once stretched across the country -- from Denver east almost to the Appalachians -- stuns the mind.
I agree with msh.........pictures and zones needed, didn't even finish ready the article, although I love grasses.
The zones are on pg 4 of the article ...
Lehmann's love grass Eragrostis lehmanniana
lemon Citrus limon
lemon balm Melissa officinalis
lemon day-lily, yellow day-lily Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
leporinum barley Hordeum murinum ssp. leporinum
lesser celandine Ranunculus ficaria ...
 See also: Grass, Love, Grasses, May, Green
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