Family | Poaceae |
Description | Delicate annual warm season grass to about 40cm high |
Flowering time | Summer-Autumn |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Disturbed, bare or low nutrient sites in Dry Sclerophyll Forests, Semi-arid Woodlands and Arid Shrublands. |
Soil types | Red sands, sandstones and alluvium. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | |
-amenity/ornamental values | A lovely grass that could be used for stunning colour and texture effects with other annuals and herbaceous perennials. |
-economic/functional values | Very useful coloniser of bare ground, rapid response to summer rain, reported to have good forage value for stock. Would make an excellent roadside coloniser. Low biomass would make it a potential inter-row cover in woody perennial crops such as citrus and grapes. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | low |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | - |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 650 |
-viability period | average to long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known but likely to be rapid under warm temperatures |
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