Plant 1 close up. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant 1. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant 2 close up. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant 2. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Neverfail Grass; Bristly Lovegrass; Naked Woollybutt Grass; Narrow-leaf Neverfail; Neverfail; Perennial Lovegrass; Plain Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Perennial grass 12-60cm tall.  Leaves with a hairless or sparsely hairy sheath at the base.  Ligule a fringe of hairs.  Leaves 4-13cm long, 1-2mm wide, flat, rolled, the edges rolled inwards, or threadlike; rough on the upper surface, hairless below, with thickened rough sharp edges, tapering to a fine point.  Spikelets pale brown to purple, 10-20mm long.  Mature seed groups cylindrical to spreading.  Seeds with 0 bristles.  Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 104

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eragrostis~setifolia

ausgrass2 description, photos, and line drawings:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/eragrostis-setifolia