Small Burrgrass at Phillip, ACT
Identification history
| Tragus australianus | 29 Jan 2022 | RWPurdie | ||
| Poaceae (family) | 28 Jan 2022 | MattM |
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User's notes
Have no idea what this is, but it looked superficially like the Cenchrus caliculatus in grasses of the NSW tablelands. My plant was up to 30cm tall. I regret not taking better photos or keeping the sample.
Growing in cracks along drain under the railing adjacent to footpath at the roundabout.
3 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
29 Jan 2022
Hi Matt. We would be very interested in knowing what this grass is. If you were able to go back & get a specimen to take to ANBG for a positive ID that would be useful to us.
RWPurdie
wrote:
29 Jan 2022
It would definitely be worth getting a specimen for the herbarium as they have only5 specimens from the ACT. It was probably introduced to Canberra in road gravel.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.085997-35.338592
- Altitude 582.1m
- Places Phillip, ACT
Sighting information
Species information
- Tragus australianus Scientific name
- Small Burrgrass Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Non-local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 712m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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