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Eragrostis spectabilis
Eragrostis
spectabilis
, known as
purple
lovegrass
, is a
species
of
flowering plant
in the
family
Poaceae
,
native
from
southern
Canada
to
northeastern
Mexico
. It was first described by
Frederick Traugott Pursh
in
1813
as
Poa
spectabilis
, and transferred to
Eragrostis
by
Ernst von Steudel
in
1840
.