Native warm-season annual small tufted C4 grass; stems are ascending or erect and grow to 40 cm tall. Leaf blades are flat, 2–6 cm long and 2.5–6 mm wide, with tubercle-based hairs along the margins. Flowerheads are cylindrical raceme-like panicles 3-6 cm long. Spikelets are paired, 3.5–5 mm long, 1-flowered and covered in hooked spines; spikelet pairs fall together. Flowers in summer and autumn. Usually found in bare or disturbed areas on a range of soil types and in a wide range of communities; prefers lighter-textured soils and is rare on clays. It is common around stockyards and other heavily trampled areas and mostly occurs on the Plains and north of Dubbo on the Slopes. Native biodiversity. A coloniser of disturbed or bare areas after spring or summer rains. It can be an indicator of overgrazing as it increases in abundance under grazing systems that create or maintain low ground cover. Provides palatable reasonable-quality forage, but yields little bulk, quickly disintegrates after flowering and mostly grows when a bulk of other feed is available. Burrs cause vegetable fault in fleeces.
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