- Taxon
- Weed
Dispersal: Seed, vegetative
Recognition
- a tall, erect perennial grass with a short and stout (c. 2 cm across) rhizome.
- its leaves are bright green, up to 50 cm long, flat, and scabrid.
- its flowering stem is purplish and the spike-like seed-heads up to 30 cm long.
- these seed-heads contain large numbers of densely packed flower spikelet clusters.
- each flower spikelet cluster is surrounded by numerous feathery bristles (10-17 mm long).
- its mature seed-heads are light creamy brown and the seeds are shed with the feathery bristles still surrounding them.
