Southern Cane-Grass

Southern Cane-Grass photos

Family: Grass (Poaceae syn. Gramineae)

Scientific Name:

Eragrostis infecunda

Southern Cane-grass growing in a wet depression
Photo: A J Brown

Status:

Native to South Australia and Victoria.

Plant Description:

Tough, wiry grass to 1 meter high, with long rhizomatous roots and stolons, stems (culms) 3 mm diameter and often knotty at the base and occasionally branched. Leaves smooth and hairless and inrolled to 3 mm diameter and 15 cm long. Flower-head a loosely contracted panicle, 15 cm long and 8 cm wide, slaty green or grey and shining.

Habitat:

Occurs on seasonally wet, heavy soils of floodplains, swamps and the edges of shallow lakes. Both freshwater and slight to moderate saline environments.

Region	Salinity Class	Waterlogging Class
Central and Northern, Wimmera, Western	S0, S1, S2	W2, W3

Southern Cane-Grass Photos

Dense stand of mature Southern Cane-grass Photo: A J Brown	Rhizome of Southern Cane-grass Photo: A J Brown
New shoots of Southern Cane-grass Photo: A J Brown	Flower-heads of Southern Cane-grass Photo: A J Brown
Rhizome and tough stem of Southern Cane-grass Photo: A J Brown	Old flower-heads of Southern Cane-grass with most spikelets dropped Photo: A J Brown

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