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Rottboellia campestris is a rhizomatous perennial grass native to the southeastern United States, growing in prairies, forest edges and roadsides. It is a wild grass rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant, and it is grown only for conservation or restoration.
Rottboellia campestris, synonyms including Coelorachis cylindrica and Mnesithea cylindrica, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae. It is known by the common names cylinder jointtail grass, Carolina jointgrass, and pitted jointgrass. It is native to the southeastern United States.
This grass grows on tallgrass prairies, forest edges, and sometimes roadsides.
Jointtail grass · Itchgrass · Rottboellia purpurascens · Itchgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rottboellia campestris 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.
