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Urochloa plantaginea
Also called Alexander Grass, Plantain Signal Grass
Urochloa plantaginea is an annual grass of the Poaceae family, native to the Caribbean and tropical America and a common weed of cultivated and disturbed ground. It grows best in warm, moist, open sites and is usually treated as a weed rather than a garden plant.
Urochloa plantaginea or Brachiaria plantaginea is an annual grass. Its leaf blades are thin and broadly linear. It has rooting at the lower nodes. The ascending ends and flowering branches are normally 8-12 in (20-30 cm) high; the plant as a whole is normally 1'8"-2'7" (50 to 80cm) high. The blades are 2 to 8 inches long (5-20 cm), 1/3-1/2 in (8-12mm) wide. It tends to grow in moist, open ground, and grows from Mexico to Brazil, later introduced in the United States. Its common English name is Alexandergrass.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Urochloa plantaginea 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.
