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Eragrostis tremula

Eragrostis tremula is an annual grass native to tropical Africa, India and Myanmar, found in sandy soils and abandoned fields. It is a wild grass rather than a garden plant, so it is grown mainly for forage, and it thrives in open, sunny, well-drained ground.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass, Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Needs little water once established; it tolerates dry spells typical of sandy ground.
Soil
Sandy, well-drained soil.
Temperature
Warm tropical conditions; frost-sensitive.
How easy
Easy

About

Eragrostis tremula is an annual grass that is native to tropical Africa, India and Myanmar. It is found in sandy soils and abandoned cultivation.

Uses

It is used as fodder for cattle and eaten in times of food scarcity.

Other Eragrostis plants

Love Grass · Sticky Love Grass · Water Lovegrass · Thalia lovegrass · Brown's Love Grass · Stinkgrass · Gophertail lovegrass · Eragrostis condensata · Weeping lovegrass · Eragrostis desertorum · Mallee Love Grass · African lovegrass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eragrostis tremula 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.

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