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Indigenous Plants Indigenous Plant Use Identification & Control
of Common Weeds
Botanical Name: | Pentapogon quadrifidus |
Common Name: | Five-awned Spear-grass |
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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This image by Michelle Casanova, has licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/>
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