Sticky Love Grass
Eragrostis viscosa
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Sticky Love Grass
Identify Sticky Love Grass by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Sticky Love Grass.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Eragrostis viscosa
- Genus
- Eragrostis
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Wastelands
- Habitat type
- Wasteland
- Native to
- Paleotropics
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Poaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Sticky Love Grass itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Sticky Love Grass
Sticky Love Grass (Eragrostis viscosa) is a herb in the Poaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and 11 other states. It grows in wastelands. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Sticky Love Grass belongs to the Poaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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