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Sporobolus ioclados
Pan dropseed is a tussock-forming perennial grass of seasonally dry, salty, sandy ground across Africa, western Asia and the Indian subcontinent. It is a salt-tolerant grass that tolerates dry, saline sites and provides forage.
Sporobolus ioclados, the pan dropseed, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae. It is native to seasonally dry areas with salty, sandy soils in Africa, Western Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. A tussock-forming perennial reaching 15 to 90 cm (6 to 35 in), it is an extremophile halophyte. A C4 plant, it has been recognized as a variable but useful forage in saline soils.
Sporobolus schoenoides · Modest prickle grass · Sporobolus pumilus · Cordgrass · Alkali sacaton · Atlantic Cordgrass · Common Cord-grass · Prairie dropseed · West Indian Dropseed · West Indian Dropseed · Salt grass · Dropseed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sporobolus ioclados 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.
