Le Jardin de Mère Nature dans une Petite Planète - Pima County

and rocky-gravelly silty ground, occurring from 900 to 7,300 feet in elevation in the forest, woodland,
grassland and desertscrub ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be an attractive component of a
restored native habitat, consider using in a mix with other grasses when over-seeding. Enneapogon
desvauxii is native to central and southern Asia; Africa; southwest-central and southern North America,
and west-central and southern South America. *5, 6, 15, 16, 33 (Pages 102-103), 43 (100909 -
Enneapogon desvauxii P. Beauv.), 46 (Page 91), 58, 63 (100909 - color presentation), 77, 85 (101009 -
color presentation of dried material), 105 (“This grass seems to be rather short-lived for a perennial.
However, it is a prolific seeder and re-establishes rapidly and abundantly during seasons of good
rainfall”), 106 (053109), 138*
Eragrostis cilianensis (C. Allioni) F. Vignolo-Lutati ex E.E. Janchen: Stinkgrass
SYNONYMY: Eragrostis megastachya (G.L. Koeler) J.H. Link. COMMON NAMES:
Amoresco (Hispanic), Candy Grass, Candy-grass, Candygrass, Éragrostide Fétide, Graminha
(Portuguese), Großes Liebesgras (German), Gray Love Grass, Lovegrass, Stink Grass, Stinkgrass,
Stinking Lovegrass, Strong-scented Lovegrass, Strongscented Lovegrass, Watergrass, Zacate Apestoso
(Hispanic), Zacate Apestoso (Hispanic), Zacate Borreguero (Hispanic), Zacate de Amor Hediondo
(Hispanic), Zacate Estepario (Hispanic). DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial annual tufted graminoid (a
bunchgrass with prostrate to erect culms 3 to 36 inches in height); the foliage is gray-green or light green;
the spikelets (flowers) are greenish, white or whitish with green veins turning tawny with age, the anthers
are yellow; flowering generally takes place between late July and late October (additional records: one for
mid-March, one for late March, one for mid-May, one for late May, one for early June, three for early
July, one for mid-November, one for late November and one for mid-December). HABITAT: Within the
range of this species it has been reported from mountains; sandy mesas; gravelly and sandy canyons;
sandy canyon bottoms; sandy bases of cliffs; bluffs; knolls; ledges; sandy meadows; bouldery foothills;
rocky hills; rocky and gravelly hillsides; rocky, rocky-gravelly, gravelly, gravelly-sandy-loamy, gravellyloamy,
sandy-loamy, sandy-clayey, loamy, clayey-loamy and clayey slopes; rocky outcrops; amongst
rocks; coves; plains; sandy and sandy-silty flats; valley floors; valley bottoms; along gravelly, gravellyloamy
and sandy roadsides; arroyos; bottoms of arroyos; draws; gulches; gullies; gravelly-sandy seeps;
springs; along streams; along and in cobbly-sandy streambeds; along creeks; creekbeds; sandy riverbeds;
along and in gravelly, sandy and silty-clayey washes; within drainage ways; clayey lakebeds; cienegas;
marshes; bedrock depressions; silty swales; along rocky-sandy, sandy and sandy-loamy banks of creeks,
rivers, washes and drainages; sandy edges of streams, ponds, lakes and marshes; sand bars; sandy
benches; gravelly-loamy terraces; loamy bottomlands; sandy and clayey floodplains; sandy mesquite
bosques; around and in stock tanks (charcos, repressos); sandy ditches; sandy riparian areas; waste places,
and disturbed areas growing in wet, moist, damp and dry bouldery, rocky, rocky-gravelly, stony, cobblysandy,
gravelly, gravelly-sandy and sandy ground; rocky-clayey loam, gravelly loam, gravelly-sandy
loam, sandy loam, clayey loam, clayey-humusy loam and loam ground; sandy clay, silty clay and clay
ground, and sandy silty and silty ground, occurring from sea level to 8,000 feet in elevation in the forest,
woodland, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecological formations. NOTES: EXOTIC Invasive
Plant. Eragrostis cilianensis is native to middle, eastern and southern Europe; western, eastern and
southern Asia, and Africa. *5, 6, 15, 16, 30, 33 (recorded as Eragrostis megastachya (Koel.) Link, Pages
82-83), 43 (101009), 46 (Page 86), 58, 63 (101009 - color presentation of seed), 68, 77, 80 (This plant is
listed as a Rarely Poisonous and Suspected Poisonous Range Plant. “This annual grass was reported to
cause poisoning in horses when fed in large quantities over a long period of time.”), 85 (101009 - color
presentation of sried material), 101 (color photograph), 105 (recorded as Eragrostis megastachya (Koel.)
Link), 138*
Eragrostis megastachya (see Eragrostis cilianensis)
Erioneuron pulchellum (see Dasyochloa pulchella)