Eragrostis minor
is a European species that now grows in gravelly roadsides
and disturbed sites, especially near railroad yards, at 20-1600 m in southern
Canada and the contiguous United States.
Much like no. 6 [Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) Janch.], glandular-warty on the lf-margins and to some extent elsewhere, but the lemmas without glands; sheaths usually pilose on the margins, sometimes also on the back, as well as at the summit; axils of the panicle-branches glabrous; spikelets more slender, 4-11 נ1.5-2 mm, 5-12(-20)-fld, the lemmas 1.5-2 mm; 2n=40, 80. Native of Europe, intr. in moist soil, waste land, gardens, and roadsides from N.S. and Vt. to Wis. and Io., s. to Ga., Tex., and Calif. (E. poaeoides)
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.