Description: Introduced, warm-season, annual, tufted grass to 1.2 m tall; nodes sometimes have a brown ring of glands below them. Leaves are hairless, with rigid 3 mm long hairs either side of the ligule. Flowerheads are contracted panicles at first, becoming open at maturity (9-50 cm long). A native of Europe, it is a weed of disturbed areas of agriculture and habitation (e.g. crops, sown pastures, gardens, roadsides and waste areas). Date: 12 April 2013, 15:04. Source:
Eragrostis mexicanaOrange plant1. Author:
Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.