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Axonopus compressus
Also called Carpet Grass, Dorrington Grass, Louisiana Grass, Blanket Grass, Broadleaf Carpet Grass, Lawn Grass, Tropical Carpet Grass
In Singapore: Tropical Carpet Grass, Wide-Leaved Carpet Grass, Cow Grass, Rumput Parit (Naturalised in Singapore)
Broadleaf carpetgrass is a low-growing, spreading grass from tropical and subtropical America, widely used as a lawn, groundcover or pasture in moist, low-fertility soils, especially in partial shade. It tolerates low maintenance well but is not suited to high-traffic elite turf.
Axonopus compressus is a species of grass. It is often used as a permanent pasture, groundcover, and turf in moist, low fertility soils, particularly in shaded situations. It is generally too low-growing to be useful in cut-and-carry systems or for fodder conservation.
While not optimal, it is occasionally used for football fields especially those which are not for elite competitions or where only a low level of maintenance can be done.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Axonopus compressus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
