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Chloris truncata
Also called Windmill Grass, Black Windmill Grass, Creeping Windmill Grass, Early Chloris, Star Grass
Chloris truncata, known by the common names Australian fingergrass, windmill-grass, Australian windmill grass and simply windmill grass locally in Australia, is a perennial grass.
Chloris truncata is a low-growing grass forming a small clump of around 30 centimetres in diameter. It has long leaves, approximately 10–15 cm long with a distinctive blunt tip and flattened leaf sheath at the base. It is light green in colour with a prominent central vein.
Swollen fingergrass · Cuban windmill grass · Hooded windmill grass · Spreading windmill grass · Chloris filiformis · Chloris flagellifera · Rhodes grass · Texas windmill grass · Feather fingergrass · Windmill grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chloris truncata 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.
