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Indigenous Plants Indigenous Plant Use Identification & Control
of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Poa tenera |
| Common Name: | Slender Tussock-grass |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Grass, Grass Like / Strappy, Ground Cover (up to 30 cm), Bird Attracting, Butterfly Attracting, Insect Attracting |
| Growing Conditions: | Partial Shade, Shade
Moist, Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 5-20 cm high |
| Foliage: | Smooth, thin folded or inrolled leaves, to 20 cm x 1.5 mm, veins becoming raised as leaf dries. Sheath pale, occasionally red to purple.. |
| Flowers: | October-January, Pale green spikelets |
| General Comments: | Effective trailing down embankments. Slender bright green trailing perennial, trailing branches rooting at nodes. Flowering stems weakly erect. Birds like it for its seeds, habitat & nesting materials. It is a food plant for caterpillars. Moist soils in shady forests and riparian scrubs along watercourses. Semi shade to dappled shade. An attractive bright grass useful as a groundcover in moist areas, especially on embankments. Flowerheads are beautiful with the sun behind them. |
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