Family | Poaceae |
Description | Small perennial grass to 50cm high |
Flowering time | Summer |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Grassy woodland |
Soil types | Usually on light-textured soils. |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | A widespread species. Fast coloniser of bare sites on sandy soils including subsoils. Valuable in native seed mixes in combination with slower growing species such as kangaroo grass, which don't provide such rapid soil stabilisation. |
-amenity/ornamental values | A very attractive grass, the pink and mauve inflorescences appear strikingly similar to those of lavender. |
-economic/functional values | Some grazing value |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 100+ |
-viability period | not known |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known |
-direct seeding | average |
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