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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Perennial. Rhizomes short; scaly. Culms decumbent; 50-120 cm long; without nodal roots, or rooting from lower nodes. Culm-nodes pubescent. Leaf-sheaths smooth, or scaberulous. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1-3 mm long; truncate. Leaf-blades 5-20 cm long; 6-15 mm wide; flaccid. Leaf-blade surface smooth, or scaberulous; rough on both sides; pilose; hairy abaxially. Leaf-blade margins glabrous, or ciliate., Grass/Grass-like
Lifespan
Perennial
Flower
Lodicules 2. Anthers 2; 1-1.5 mm long. Stigmas 2.
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
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Taxonomy
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Leersia
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