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Spodiopogon cotulifer
Spodiopogon cotulifer is a perennial ornamental grass from East and Southeast Asia, grown mainly for its decorative foliage and seed heads. It is a wild relative of a cultivated millet and is not commonly sold as a houseplant.
Spodiopogon cotulifer is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae. It is native to East and Southeast Asia.
It is the most likely wild progenitor of Spodiopogon formosanus, a cultivated millet that is endemic to Taiwan.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Spodiopogon cotulifer 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.
