Details of data

Country or region name	Japan
Organism group	plant
Order name	Poales
Family name	Poaceae
Species name	Eragrostis curvula
English common name	weeping lovegrass, African lovegrass
Substantially same species (synonym)	Eragrostis chloromelas Steud., Eragrostis curvula var. ampla ined., Eragrostis curvula var. conferta Nees, Eragrostis curvula var. valida Stapf, Eragrostis jeffreysii Hack., Eragrostis robusta Stent, Eragrostis subulata Nees, Poa curvula Schrad.
Year of invasion or detection	1959
Native region	South Africa
Situation of establishment	Category 2: Settled after 1951
Taxonomic description
Expansion of distribution area
Environmental impact
Economic damage
Reproduction
Growth
Countermeasure
Writer's name and affiliation
Mitsuo Horita, NIAES

Photos of alien and similar species and damage : 1

No.	Kind of Photo	Photo	Name of copyright holder and explanation of photo
1	Alien species		NIAES

Reference : 1

1	Author	The Ecological Society of Japan (ed.)
	Year	2002
	Title	Provisional list of alien species naturalized in Japan
	Magazine	In: Handbook of Alien Species in Japan, Chijin Shokan, Tokyo
	Volume
	Number	390pp
	Page
	Summary
	Key Word	Alien species, Japan
	PDF

Habitat : 4

No.	Habitat
1	pasture
2	riverside and swamp
3	roadside
4	weedy field/margin of field

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