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Polypogon monspeliensis
Also called Annual Beard-grass, Annual Beardgrass, Annual Rabbit's Foot Grass, Beard Grass, Rabbit Foot Grass, Rabbitfoot Beardgrass, Rabbitfoot Polypogon
Annual rabbitsfoot grass is a small annual grass with soft, fluffy, bottlebrush-like seed heads, native to the Old World and now widespread as a weed. It grows as a wild or lawn-edge weed in damp, disturbed ground and needs little care beyond moisture.
Polypogon monspeliensis, commonly known as annual beard-grass or annual rabbitsfoot grass, is a species of grass. It is native to the Old World, but it can be found today throughout the world as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed. It is an annual grass growing to heights between 5 centimeters and one meter. The soft, fluffy inflorescence is a dense, greenish, plumelike panicle, sometimes divided into lobes. The spikelets have long, thin, whitish awns, which give the inflorescence its texture.
Chilean rabbitsfoot grass · Streambank rabbitsfoot grass · Ditch rabbitsfoot grass · Fuegian Bent · Mediterranean rabbitsfoot grass · Polypogon subspathaceus · Polypogon tenellus · Beardless rabbitsfoot grass · Rabbitsfoot grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Polypogon monspeliensis 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.
