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Phalaris aquatica
Also called Bulbous Canary Grass, Australian Phalaris, Harding Grass, Toowoomba Canary Grass
Bulbous canarygrass (Phalaris aquatica) is a stout, waist-high perennial bunch grass grown as pasture forage and for soil improvement. It is a quick-growing grass that takes up soil nitrogen rapidly, but it is slow to establish from seed.
Phalaris aquatica, known by the common names bulbous canary-grass and Harding grass, is a species of grass in the genus Phalaris of the family Poaceae.
Grazing on Phalaris-dominated pastures can cause livestock toxicoses:
Phalaris staggers: A chronic neurological condition associated with ruminants grazing Phalaris containing toxic alkaloids; appropriate cobalt supplementation can reduce the risk of the staggers syndrome.
Timothy canarygrass · Reed canarygrass · Shortspike canarygrass · Canary grass · Carolina canarygrass · Hood canarygrass · Canarygrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phalaris aquatica 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.
