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. (2011)

Additional information:
Additional online information about Eragrostis parviflora is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Eragrostis parviflora as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Eragrostis parviflora may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Flynn, Tim/Lorence, David H. 1998. New naturalized plant records for the Hawaiian Islands. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Miller, Scott, E., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1997. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 56:5-6.

Hancock, I. R./Henderson, C. P. 1988. Flora of the Solomon Islands. Research Bulletin No. 7. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Honiara. 203 pp.

Stanley, T. D./Ross, E. M. 1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland. Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Misc. Pub. 81020. 3 Volumes.

U. S. Government. 2011. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (on-line resource).

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.

Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. 1999. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Revised edition. Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication. University of Hawai‘i Press/Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1919 pp. (two volumes).