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Diplachne fusca
Also called Bearded Sprangletop, Mexican Sprangletop, Swamp Grass, Sprangletop
Brown beetle grass is a tufted grass that grows in wet, salty places such as salt marshes and shallow depressions. It tolerates brackish water and saline soil, so it suits wet, saline or flood-prone sites rather than ordinary garden beds.
Diplachne fusca, called bearded sprangletop and Kallar grass, is a widespread species of grass in the genus Diplachne, native to North America, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and introduced in Europe, New Zealand and Hawaii, among other places. It prefers to live in salty, wet conditions, such as in salt marshes and shallow depressions.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplachne fusca 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.
