Common Name
Knotroot bristlegrass
Knotroot foxtail
Plant Form
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes
Duration
Perennial
Max Height (ft)
4.0
Region
Coastal
Piedmont
Mountain
Additional Info
Moist fields, pastures, roadsides, river shores and bars, disturbed alluvial soils, dunes, interdune swales, and salt scrub; occasionally invasive in natural wetlands. Especially common in pastures where it competes well with other perennial species; not so much a weed of disturbed ground as other foxtail species. Common in the coastal Plain; frequent in the piedmont and mountains.
Bloom Time
Spring
Early Summer
Late Summer
Fall
Light Requirements
Full sun
Partial sun
Moisture Requirements
Moist
Dry
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