POACEAE (GRAMINEAE)

Weeping Grass

 

60cm 

In compact flowerheads up to 20cm long, at the end of long drooping flowering stems. 

Grains 

Tufted perennial grass with underground stems. Leaves have long, coarse hairs and a prominent midrib on the lower surface, and a few scattered hairs on the upper surface. 

Break O'Day; Brighton; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Clarence; Derwent Valley; Devonport; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar 

 

Widespread in a wide range of open habitats, from sea level to 700m altitude. 

 

 

 

Grows easily from seed, and often self-sows in the garden. Probably also easy to propagate by division, as it spreads by stolons. Beware of planting this grass in the garden, as without mowing/grazing, it grows lanky, spreads by stolons throughout other plants and self-seeds. It is recognised as a useful species for a regularly mown lawn or pasture feed. Suitable below powerlines. 

Seeds turn brownish when mature, and come off easily in the hand. Seeds ripen sequentially along the stalk and fall soon after ripening. Plants continue seeding for a long time. 

 

 

 

 

1-3 weeks 

Yes 

 

 

Yes