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Chloris texensis
Chloris texensis is a species of grass known by the common name Texas windmill grass. It is endemic to Texas in the United States, where it occurs on the coastal prairies.
This perennial grass forms clumps of stems up to 30 to 45 centimeters tall. The leaf blades are up to 15 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a panicle with several long, spreading branches arranged in a whorl. Each branch is up to 20 centimeters long and has 3 to 4 spikelets per centimeter along the distal part. Flowering occurs in October and November.
Swollen fingergrass · Cuban windmill grass · Hooded windmill grass · Spreading windmill grass · Chloris filiformis · Chloris flagellifera · Rhodes grass · Australian fingergrass · Feather fingergrass · Windmill grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chloris texensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
