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Couch Paspalum Care

Paspalum Vaginatum

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What is the plant

Perennial with short rhizome and long stolons. Culms solitary or tufted, many-noded, 10–50 cm tall. Leaf sheaths imbricate, often keeled, margins membranous; leaf blades distichous, linear, rather stiffly ascending, 2.5–15 × 0.3–0.8 cm, apex acute; ligule 0.5–1 mm. Inflorescence of (1–)2(–3) racemes arising together at culm apex; racemes 2–5 cm, usually closely approximate when young, later spreading; spikelets single, in 2 rows; rachis 1–2 mm wide. Spikelets pale brownish green, narrowly lanceolate-oblong, strongly flattened, 3.5–4 mm, acute; lower glume absent or rarely a tiny vestige; upper glume thinly papery, weakly 5-veined, midvein often suppressed, glabrous; lower lemma resembling upper glume; upper lemma pale green, 2.5–3 mm, shorter than spikelet, cartilaginous, apex minutely pubescent

humidity

humidity

Dry

lighting

lighting

Part sun and part shade

temperature

temperature

min 15°C

difficulty

difficulty

Medium

hibernation

hibernation

Cold Period

Invasive

Invasive

Weed

How to Care for the Plant

  • Water

    Water

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    It can grow in lawns that receive rain on 250 days per year, and it can survive being waterlogged or submerged for several days at a time.[

  • Soil

    Soil

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    Able to establish in coastal vegetation including mangroves, mud flats, shrubland, salt marsh, beaches and sandunes.

  • Popularity

    Popularity

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    22 people already have this plant 2 people have added this plant to their wishlists

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