Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

English: small flower love grass, weeping lovegrass

Habit:  grass

Description:  "Tufted perennial up to 90 cm tall; culms erect or ascending, usually slender, glabrous.  Leaves mostly arising from near base; sheaths striate; blades narrow, flat or inrolled, attenuate, up to 35 cm x 0.4 cm, minutely hispid.  Panicles open, spreading, often slightly nodding, elliptic or ovate, 15-45 cm long, branchlets capillary, lowermost often ± whorled; spikelets greenish to purplish, linear-ovate to linear-oblong, 0.3-1.1 cm x 0.08-0.15 cm, florets 4-19; glumes ovate, blunt, subequal, lower 0.7-1 mm long, upper 1-1.5 mm long, obscurely 1-nerved; lemmas broadly ovate, obtuse to blunt, 1.2-1.7 mm long, obscurely 3-nerved" (Stanley & Ross, 1989; vol. 3, pp. 169-170).

Description from GrassBase.

Habitat/ecology:  In Queensland, "often a weed of disturbed sites or cultivation" (Stanley & Ross, 1989; vol. 3, pp. 169-170).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Australia, naturalized elsewhere (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Kaua‘i Island	introduced invasive	Flynn, Tim/Lorence, David H. (1998) (p. 5) Voucher cited: T. Flynn 5925 (K, PTBG)
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands	native	Hancock, I. R./Henderson, C. P. (1988) (p. 71)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Australia Australia (continental)	Australia (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013) South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Australia Australia (continental)	Northern Territory	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Australia Australia (continental)	Queensland	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)

Control:  If you know of control methods for Eragrostis parviflora, please let us know.