Thysanolaena maxima (Jhadoo Ghas) A beautiful plant that looks like bamboo but is actually a perennial grass. It is very tight clumping which makes it a good screener or feature plant. If planting Tiger Grass as a screen, ideal spacing is 1 to 1.5m apart, and atleast half a meter away from fence, building, etc.
Themeda quadrivalvis (Kangaroo Grass) This species is an annual grass growing up to 2 metres tall. The usually folded leaves are up to 60 centimetres long. The seed heads are rounded or fan-shaped and are accompanied by leaflike bracts. The grass becomes orange, red, or golden brown at maturity. The seed is sometimes found as …
Themeda arundinacea (Hathi Ghas) Themeda arundinacea is a tufted, reedlike, perennial grass with culms that can be up to 6 metres tall. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a source of fibre and thatching material. The culms yield a fibre used for cordage. It is also used to make the …
Themeda anathera (Loonder Grass) Loonder Grass is a densely clumped perennial grass with creeping rhizome; culms 30-120 cm high, erect or geniculately rising up. Leaf-blades are flat, up to 30 cm long and 4 mm wide. Flowering: June-October.
Sporobolus tenuissimus Culms geniculately ascending; 18-80 cm long. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades 5-20 cm long; 2-5 mm wide. Inflorescence a panicle, Panicle open. Panicle branches capillary; glabrous in axils. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
Sporobolus diander Tufted perennial without rhizomes; culms 15-75 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades nearly always involute, up to 30 cm long, occasionally flat and then up to 4 mm wide. Panicle pyramidal or narrowly lanceolate, loose, up to 20 cm long, the primary branches erect or somewhat spreading, 1.5 – 5 cm long, …
Sorghum miliaceum (Johnson Grass) Sorghum millet is an annual grass whose plants reach an average height of 100 cm. Stout, up to 1 m or more high, smooth or somewhat hairy (a) for several cm below each node (b), especially where not enclosed within the leaf sheath.
Sorghum halepense (Johnson Grass) Sorghum halepense is a tall up to 8 ft. It is adapted to a wide variety of habitats including open forests, old fields, ditches and wetlands. Flowers occur in a loose, spreading, purplish panicle. Fruits are also produced in a panicle. Seeds form in the sessile spikelets. Perennial grass with culms …
Setaria tomentosa(Chiktu) The grass grown in road side. Seeds eaten by birds and rodents. An annual grass with culms, ascending, compressed towards the base, branchy from 30-45 cm high. Leaves soft, covered with much long, soft hair, sheaths half the length of the joints, mouth bearded. Flowering and fruiting time October.
Setaria verticillata (Latkaunya) Bristly foxtail is an annual grass native to Europe, but widely naturalized world-wide. Culms are prostrate and rising up, 10–100 cm long. Leaf-blades are 5–30 cm long, 4–16 mm wide, flaccid. Leaf-blade surface is glabrous, or pilose. Flowering: July-September.