Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv.
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Authority
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - A nearly glabrous perennial, under favorable conditions producing long leafy stolons with short broad obtuse blades, the flowering culms erect or ascending, compressed, with rather thin blades 8 to 10 mm. wide, and 2 to 5 slender racemes along a short axis, 2 or 3 secondary peduncles often produced from the upper node.
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Common Names
carpet grass