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Polypogon australis
Also called Chilean Beard Grass
Polypogon australis is a species of grass known by the common names Chilean beard grass and Chilean rabbitsfoot grass. It is native to Chile and Argentina. It is also known in parts of the western United States where it is an introduced species and invasive species that grows in moist habitat types such as ditches.
Streambank rabbitsfoot grass · Ditch rabbitsfoot grass · Fuegian Bent · Mediterranean rabbitsfoot grass · Annual rabbitsfoot grass · Polypogon subspathaceus · Polypogon tenellus · Beardless rabbitsfoot grass · Rabbitsfoot grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Polypogon australis 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.
