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Mucronate Sprangletop

Dinebra panicea

Also called Windgrass

Mucronate Sprangletop
Photo: Gaiacoyote, CC0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Annual
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia, America
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Dinebra panicea is a plant species belonging to the family Poaceae.

Where it grows

On the iNaturalist distribution map for Dinebra panicea, observations of the species are documented -- both in its native areas and as an invasive -- in the Americas from the central US south to Chile and Brazil, southern Asia, and spottily elsewhere in Africa, Europe, Australia and Oceania.

Other Leptochloa plants

Chinese sprangletop · Sprangletop · Leptochloa crinita

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dinebra panicea 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.

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