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Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Also called Durban crowfoot grass, Coast Button Grass, Crowfoot Grass, Durban Crowfoot, Helicopter Grass, Comb Fringe Grass, Duck Grass
Egyptian grass is a low, creeping annual or perennial grass from warm regions of Africa and Asia, usually about 30 cm tall, that grows best in damp, heavy soils. It is a weedy grass of disturbed ground and roadsides, and is also used as a traditional famine food grain.
Dactyloctenium aegyptium, or Egyptian crowfoot grass is a member of the family Poaceae native to Africa and Asia. The plant mostly grows in heavy soils at damp sites.
Dactyloctenium aegyptium is still a traditional food plant used as a famine food in Africa, this little-known grain has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dactyloctenium aegyptium 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.
