Poaceae FAMILY
Digitaria fuscescens
Digitaria fuscescens
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitPerennial
Growth—
The plant is often found as a weed of cultivated crops and disturbed soils within its native range. It has proved to be invasive when taken outside its native range, spreading into the wild by means of seeds and fragments of its rhizomes[1].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Digitaria+fuscescens>
Pollinators
Wind
References
- [1]Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk — http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html ↩︎A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands.
- [2]Plant Resources of Southeast Asia — http://proseanet.org/ ↩︎Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia.