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Bromus tectorum, known as downy brome, drooping brome [1] or cheatgrass, is a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa, but has become invasive in many other areas.
Urochloa brizantha (syn. Brachiaria brizantha) is a species of grass known by the common name palisade grass.It is often used as a forage for livestock.Other common names include palisade signal grass, bread grass, [1] Mauritius grass, [2] Surinam grass, [3] large-seeded millet grass, big ashama, [4] Ceylon sheep grass, and St. Lucia grass.
Water finger-grass, Paspalum vaginatum. Paspalum is a genus of plants in the grass family. [3] [4] The group is widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Commonly known as paspalum, bahiagrasses, crowngrasses or dallis grasses, many of the species are tall perennial New World grasses.
The roots can grow 5 centimetres (2.0 in) per day. The first root to grow into the soil from a seedling can send out up to 60 small rootlets per inch. The dense root system forms a sod. The drooping leaves of the grass are up to 65 centimetres (2.13 ft) long but just a few millimeters wide, and they may have rolled edges.
[1] [2] [3] Elsewhere in the world it is measured at a height of 1.3 meters (4.3 ft), [4] 1.35 meters (4.4 ft) [5] 1.4 meters (4.6 ft), [6] [7] or 1.5 meters (4.9 ft). [8] The base of the tree is measured for both height and girth as being the elevation at which the pith of the tree intersects the ground surface beneath, or where the acorn ...
This is an annual grass growing up to about half a meter in maximum height. It sometimes forms tufts, and may or may not spread via stolons. The inflorescence is an array of 4 to 20 fingerlike branches up to 10 centimeters long. Each branch contains approximately 10 spikelets per centimeter.
This is an annual grass with decumbent or erect stems growing up to a meter long, and known to reach two meters or more at times. The leaf blades are up to 40 centimeters long and 2.5 wide and glabrous. The inflorescence is a dense, compact, spikelike panicle up to 20 centimeters long, growing erect or sometimes nodding at the tip only ...
Paspalum distichum is a species of grass. Common names include knotgrass , [ 1 ] water finger-grass , [ 2 ] couch paspalum , eternity grass , gingergrass , and Thompson grass . [ 3 ] Its native range is obscure because it has long been present on most continents, and in most areas it is certainly an introduced species .