Catapodium rigidum plant5 Denman - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man

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Description: Introduced, cool season, annual,small, hairless grass usually < 30 cm tall. Culms are rigid, erect or spreading, usually genticulate at the base, 2–5-noded. Ligules are membranous and blunt. Leaf blades are inrolled or flat, to 16 cm long and 3 mm wide, scabrid, hairless, and green or purplish. Flowerheads are contracted, stiff, 2–11 cm long panicles. Spikelets are 4–11 mm long, 3–10-flowered and often purplish. A minor weed in dry and saline areas, more common in South Australia and Victoria. Date: 19 October 2015, 17:02. Source: Catapodium rigidum plant5 Denman. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location32° 23′ 06.52″ S, 150° 49′ 53.72″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-32.385144; 150.831588.