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Bothriochloa pertusa
Also called Hurricane Grass, Indian Couch Grass, Pitted Bluestem, Donna Grass, Indian Bluegrass
Pitted beardgrass is a hardy perennial grass that spreads by stolons and is widely grown as fodder and grazing for livestock. It thrives in warm tropical conditions and tolerates drought, poor soils and disturbance.
Bothriochloa pertusa is a species of grass. It is widely used as a fodder and a graze for livestock.
Common names for the plant include hurricane grass, Indian couch grass, Indian-bluegrass, pitted bluestem, Seymour grass, Barbados sourgrass, Antigua hay, pitted beardgrass, sweet pitted grass, silver grass (English), comagueyana, yerba huracán (Spanish), suket putihan, salay (Philippines), ya-hom, ya-hangma (Thailand), huyêt tha'o lô (Vietnam), and kong ying cao (Chinese).
In general, it requires tropical climates, and it does not tolerate frost. It is able to grow in many types of soils. It withstands drought and disturbance, and it can sprout up in dry, degraded habitat, such as roadsides. It survives short-term waterlogging and fire.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bothriochloa pertusa 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.
