Botanical name: Chloris flagellifera    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Panicum compressum, Eleusine compressa, Ochthochloa compressa

Wire Grass is a sprawling runner-bearing perennial grass with stems prostrate or geniculately rising up, up to 30 cm high, rarely forming clumps up to 90 cm high. Leaf-blades are 2.5-15 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, glaucous. Spikes are 1.5-4.5 cm long, clustered at the top of the stem. Spikelets 4-8-flowered, 4.5-8 mm long; lower glume 2.2-23 mm long; upper glume 3.5-4.7 mm long; lemmas 3.8-5.4 mm long. Wire Grass is found from Sahara to NW India. Flowering: March-September.

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