Eragrostis multicaulis

Eragrostis multicaulis, the Japanese lovegrass or many-stemmed lovegrass, is an annual grass in the family Poaceae native to temperate East Asia and now widely naturalised in Europe, North America and Australasia as a weed of disturbed ground. It forms a small, much-branched tuft 10-50 cm tall, with several decumbent to ascending culms arising from the base, often rooting at the lower nodes. The flat, soft green leaf blades are 2-15 cm long and characteristically bear a few scattered, gland-like swellings along the margins and on the lower sheaths. Open, diffuse panicles 4-15 cm long carry numerous small grey-green to purplish spikelets, each with four to twelve florets. It thrives in pavement cracks, gardens, gravel paths, and arable margins, completing its life cycle rapidly during the warm season and producing abundant minute seeds.