Eragrostis Wolf
Lemmas awnless Eragrostis
Glumes subequal
Plants with glands on leaf nerves and/or margins
Leaf blade more than 2.5 mm wide
Leaves with glands on margin and blade. Leaf blades 2–7 mm wide. Spikelets 5–15 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, with 10–40 florets (often fewer than 10 in stunted specimens), dark grey-green or purple. Panicle erect, 5–20 cm long, branches often glandular. Tufted annual up to 60 cm high. Widespread. Weed; roadsides; waste places. Fl. summer. Introd. from the Mediterranean. Stink Grass Eragrostis cilianensis
Leaves with pitted glands only on blade Eragrostis mexicana