Availability:
Rarely grown due to its fast growing and prolific nature.
Description: Medium herbaceous clumping grass.
Dimensions: Typically 1-2 feet in height; may exceed 3 feet when in flower. As broad as tall except when flowering.
Growth Rate: Fast to moderate.
Range:
Southern United States south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Habitats: A wide variety of sunny, moist, upland habitats and disturbed sites.
Soils: Moist to occasionally wet, well-drained to moderately well-drained, sandy, limestone, or organic soils, without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: High; can tolerate moderate amounts of salt wind without significant injury.
Drought Tolerance: High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy inflorescence.
Fruit: Inconspicuous caryopsis.
Horticultural Notes: Can easily be grown from seed.
Comments: Spreads readily from seed in the garden.
