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Rytidosperma laeve
Smooth Wallaby Grass is a perennial native grass of south-eastern Australia, also naturalised in New Zealand, often used in lawns, pastures and native revegetation. It is hardy and tolerates a range of conditions once established.
Rytidosperma laeve is a species of true grass in the subfamily Danthonioideae. It is endemic to Australia and introduced and naturalised in New Zealand. It was described in the Contributions to the New South Wales National Herbarium V. 1 as Danthonia laevis in 1950 by Joyce Winifred Vickery.
Lobed Wallaby Grass · Rytidosperma australe · Wallaby Grass · Leafy Wallaby Grass · Rytidosperma buchananii · Ringed Wallaby Grass · Short Wallaby Grass · Bristle Grass · Rytidosperma corinum · Hill Wallaby Grass · Mountain Twitch · Dainty Bristle Grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rytidosperma laeve 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.
