Cynodon dactylonBack to index icon.

Graphic of Cynodon dactylon.

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FAMILY:

POACEAE

Genus:

Cynodon

species:

dactylon

Common name:

Couch grass


Life form:

 

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Additional:

 

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Origin:

Europe.

Stem:

Low growing prostrate plant.

Leaves:

Bluish-green grass leaves.

Flowers:

Umbrella of 2-7 spreading, purplish spikes. Flowers in spikelets.

Roots:

Fibrous with rhizomes and stolons.

Other characteristics:

Invasive wetland weed. Widely planted as a lawn grass.

Spread:

Seeds, stolons, rhizomes, dumping of garden waste, slashing.

Control:

Shading out or herbicides.