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Digitaria abyssinica
Also called Abyssinian Finger Grass, African Couch Grass
African couchgrass is a perennial grass native to much of Africa and tropical Asia, valued as low-quality livestock forage but often treated as a weed. It is grown mainly as a pasture or lawn-type grass in warm, seasonally dry climates rather than as a houseplant.
Digitaria abyssinica, the East African couchgrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is native to Sub‑Saharan Africa (except West Africa), Madagascar, many of the Indian Ocean islands, the Arabian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, New Guinea, and Queensland in Australia, and it has been introduced to scattered locations in Central America and northern South America, and to Saint Helena. Although it is a livestock forage, albeit a low‑quality one, it is generally considered a noxious weed.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Digitaria abyssinica 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.
