Eragrostis spectabilis (Pursh) Steud. 1840

Rigo, Attila, Malatinszky, Akos & Barina, Zoltan, 2023, Inventory of the urban flora of Budapest (Hungary) highlighting new and noteworthy floristic records, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 110450-110450 : 110450

Eragrostis spectabilis (Pursh) Steud. 1840

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Attila Rigó; individualCount: 10; reproductiveCondition: fruit-bearing; occurrenceID: 6FF399E9-40A9-59AE-9546-B32AA41C7696; Taxon : scientificName: Eragrostis spectabilis; family: Poaceae ; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Hungary; county: Budapest; municipality: Budapest II.; locality: Margit boulevard ; decimalLatitude: 47.509142; decimalLongitude: 19.027732; Identification : identifiedBy: Attila Rigo ; Event : eventDate: 01/09/2022; habitat: crevices of pavement

Notes

A perennial grass native to North America which is used as an ornamental in Europe and Asia. Some studies suggest that it could potentially become invasive ( Qin and Wu 2013 and Wirth et al. 2020a). This species had only been recorded once in Hungary, with one specimen found in a flower bed near the parent plants at Pécs (S Hungary) ( Wirth et al. 2020a). In the new locality in Budapest, we could not find the propagule source nearby.