Common Name: purple lovegrassScientific Name: Eragrotis spectabilis (Pursch) Steud.Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial, reproducing by seeds and short, stout rhizomes Culmsupright to arching and wide spreading, stiff, smooth, unbranched, form dense low-growing tufts Leavesblades flat and ascending, hairs above and below, long soft hairs at base on upper surface; rolled in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous, short, ring of hairy beh ind; sheaths margins overlapping, long hairs on upper margins Seedheadsopen stiff panicle appear purple in color, relatively large compared to foliage, panicle branches red-purple, spikelets purple, sometimes a tuft of hairs in panicle axils