Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Anthosacne scabra synonym: Elymus scaber |
| Common Name: | common wheat-grass, native wheat grass |
| Status: | DISABLED: Unavailable for now & possibly forever |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Grass, Grass Like / Strappy, Butterfly Attracting, Insect Attracting |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 30-100 cm x 40 cm |
| Foliage: | Flat or inrolled green to bluish-green leaves, rough on upper surface, sometimes hairy. Leaf sheath has ear-like appendages encircling the stem. |
| Flowers: | Narrow spike of 1-10 distant 6-12-flowered spikelets to 4-8 cm long including bristles; pair of lower bracts veined, 3 on lower, 3-5 on upper; lower floral bract tapered to a rough flattened bristle, basal tuft of hairs, October-January, Green, becoming straw-coloured |
| General Comments: | Open tufted perennial grass. Flowering stems upright or drooping. Food plant for caterpillars. Plant in drifts with other grasses and herbs under established trees. |
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