File:Urochloa panicoides head7 NWP - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man.jpg
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Introduced, warm-season, short-lived annual, tufted, hairy grass to 70 cm tall. Stems are prostrate to ascending, often rooting at lower nodes. Leaves to 15 mm wide with wavy margins. Flowerheads are a primary axis of (2-6) racemes to 8 cm long. Spikelets are evenly distributed, 4-5 mm long, 2-flowered, unawned and hairless. Germinates in spring and early summer. Flowering is in summer. A native of Africa, it is a weed of disturbed ground, such as cropping, overgrazed pastures, roadsides, gardens and paths. Commonly found around habitation. An indicator of disturbance. Has poor drought tolerance and grows most vigorously during wet summers. Occasionally causes nitrate poisoning of livestock. Provides limited summer feed and is susceptible to set stocking. |
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| Source | Urochloa panicoides head7 NWP |
| Author | Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Macleay Grass Man at https://flickr.com/photos/73840284@N04/27616734365. It was reviewed on 22 October 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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| current | 21:40, 22 February 2019 | | 2,139 × 2,450 (1.65 MB) | Salicyna | Cropped 35 % horizontally, < 1 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode. |
| 04:55, 22 October 2016 |  | 3,272 × 2,454 (2.41 MB) | Josve05a | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Introduced, warm-season, short-lived annual, tufted, hairy grass to 70 cm tall. Stems are prostrate to ascending, often rooting at lower nodes. Leaves to 15 mm wide with wavy margins. Flowerheads are a... |
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