| English Name | Chinese Lawn Grass |
|---|---|
| Status in China | Vulnerable (VU). Wild plant under State protection (category II). |
Description:
Perennial grasses having creeping rhizomes, 10-30cm high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 10 cm long, 1-3mm wide, margine involute. Raceme spike-like, 2?cm long, 4-5mm wide; spikelets 1-flowered, purplish brown, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-5(-6) mm long, 1-1.5mm wide; bilateral appressed，spikelet stalk toward 2 mm long; disarticulating below the glume, first glume wanting and second glume enveloping the thin lemma, glabrous, shortly pointed. Grain brown, long elliptic, ca. 3 mm long.
Distribution:
Ma On Shan, Castle Peak. Liaoning, Hebei, S. & E. China. Japan.
Habitat and Ecology:
On sandy beaches, river-bank. Flowering & Fruiting: May-Oct.
The habit of forming dense fine-textured turf, tolerating drought conditions make it very suitable for cultivation as a lawn grass.
References:
陳守良1990: 中國植物誌10(1):126, 圖版39。科學出版社。北京。
