Weeping Grass - native (Microlaena stipoides var. stipoides)

Native. Perennial. C3.

Family. Poaceae (Grass family).

Other names: Weeping Rice-grass.

Widepread in local forests, but seldom abundant

Identification:

• the flower cluster is slender, with branched or unbranched flower stalks
• the glumes are tiny
• the lemmas are long-awned
• the spikelet has fertile and sterile lemmas
• the leaves are flat
• the ligules are membranous, and 0.2-0.5mm long.

Weeping Grass may spread by underground runners and above-ground runners. It is a spreading grass and can form lawn-like patches.

Weeping Grass is sometimes used as a lawn grass. It is a variable grass and sometimes forms tussocks.

micro: small; laina cloak, referring to the minute glumes; stipa: spear grass; oides: like, like a Spear Grass.

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