Poaceae
Australian fingergrass
Chloris truncata
Also known as Chloris truncata f. abbreviata, Chloris megastachya, Windmill grass, Umbrella fingergrass
Native Plants · Fingergrass · Warm Season Grass · Compact · Rock Garden · Naturalized · Seed Heads · Drought Adapted · Tufted Grass
A compact warm-season grass that forms attractive tufts with distinctive finger-like seed heads. Thrives in well-draining soils and hot climates with minimal water once established. Best suited for rock gardens, borders, or naturalized areas in appropriate climate zones.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Light to moderate watering, avoid waterlogging · Every 7-10 days in summer
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 18 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Argentina Northeast, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Czechoslovakia, Fiji, Hawaii, Japan, Lesser Sunda Is., New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Niue, Norfolk Is., Queensland, South Australia, South Carolina, Spain, Tasmania
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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