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  2. Zoysia matrella - Wikipedia

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    Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr., commonly known as Manila grass, is a species of mat-forming, perennial grass native to temperate coastal southeastern Asia and northern Australasia, from southern Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Taiwan, and southern China (Guangdong, Hainan) south through Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to northern Australia (northeast Queensland), and west to the Cocos ...

  3. Pennisetum alopecuroides - Wikipedia

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    The plant is a warm season ornamental grass which typically grows in graceful, spreading clumps from 2–3 ft (0.61–0.91 m) tall and wide. It features narrow, medium to deep green leaves (to 1/2" wide) in summer, changing to golden yellow in fall, and fading to beige in late fall. The foliage usually remains attractive throughout the winter.

  4. Ornamental grass - Wikipedia

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    Along with true grasses (Poaceae), several other families of grass-like plants are typically marketed as ornamental grasses. These include the sedges (Cyperaceae), rushes ( Juncaceae ), restios (Restionaceae), and cat-tails (Typhaceae).

  5. Cenchrus purpureus - Wikipedia

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    Cenchrus purpureus (or napier grass) is a monocot C4 perennial grass in the family Poaceae. [4] It is tall and forms in robust bamboo-like clumps. [2] It is a heterozygous plant, but seeds rarely fully form; more often it reproduces vegetatively through stolons which are horizontal shoots above the soil that extend from the parent plant to ...

  6. Foxtail millet - Wikipedia

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    Foxtail millet is an annual grass with slim, vertical, leafy stems which can reach a height of 120–200 cm (3 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in).. The seedhead is a dense, hairy panicle 5–30 cm (2 in – 1 ft 0 in) long.

  7. Cortaderia - Wikipedia

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    Cortaderia species are perennial grasses, characterised by robust culms and feathery inflorescent plumes held high above the foliage.Some species are relatively short, forming rounded hedgehog-like clumps less than 0.5 m tall, but many species, including Cortaderia selloana and Cortaderia jubata form wide tussocks, up to 4 m tall.

  8. Poa pratensis - Wikipedia

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    The name Kentucky bluegrass derives from its flower heads, which are blue when the plant is allowed to grow to its natural height of 60 to 90 cm (2 to 3 feet). [9] Poa pratensis is the type species of the grass family Poaceae. There are two ill-defined subspecies: Poa pratensis subsp. pratensis – temperate regions; Poa pratensis subsp ...

  9. Zostera noltii - Wikipedia

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    Zostera noltii is a species of seagrass known by the common name dwarf eelgrass. It is found in shallow coastal waters in north western Europe , the Mediterranean Sea , Black Sea , Caspian Sea and Aral Sea and on islands in the Atlantic off the coast of northwest Africa.