Summary[
edit] Description: Native, warm-season, perennial, grass with long rhizomes; tends to form dense, low mats, with erect stems 15-40 cm tall. Leaves are rigid, smooth, relatively short, sharp pointed and arranged in two distinctly opposite rows. There is a narrow-leaf and a broad-leaf variety with many intermediates. Found on coastal margins, including sand dunes and tidal wetlands. Prefers sandy soils and doesn't tolerate constant inundation. Water here is sea water. Date: 20 December 2012, 12:42. Source:
Sporobolus virginicus habit7. Author:
Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.