Scientific Name: Pentapogon quadrifidus var. quadrifidus

Common Name: five-awned speargrass

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Poaceae

Form Description: Slender, erect or kneed annual or short lived perennial; variable.

Flowers: Flower head up to 5cm long (20cm var. quadrifidus), and contain fewer, smaller spikelets.

Fruit: Caryopsis

Municipality
BurnieCentral HighlandsGlamorgan-Spring BayHobartHuon ValleyKentishKingboroughMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSouthern MidlandsTasmanWest Coast
Plant Communities
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Habitat Notes

Sedge and grasslands, heath, rock crevices, boulder slopes and stream banks. From sea level on the east coast and in the south-west, to 1200m altitude in the Central Highlands and kunanyi/Mt. Wellington.

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Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information