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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 
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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.

Further
Information:
  1. Yarra Ranges Council 
  2. iNaturalist 
  3. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (VICFLORA) 


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