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Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Pentapogon quadrifidus |
| Common Name: | five-awned spear-grass |
| Status: | DISABLED: Unavailable for now & possibly forever |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Grass, Grass Like / Strappy |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Dry, Moist |
| Size (HxW): | 8-18 cm high, stems 30-60 cm high |
| Foliage: | Few flat or inrolled densely hairy leaves to 20 cm x 0.5-3 mm |
| Flowers: | November-February, Light brown panicle, spikelets |
| General Comments: | Open tufted annual or biennial grass. Flowering stem erect or bent, nodes hairy. Moist to dry soils in lowland heaths and woodlands. Ornamental grass. Grow amongst other herbs and grasses under trees or in rockeries. Short lived. |
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