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Themeda triandra
A spiky grass growing to about 60cm tall which produces yellow, brown, green, purple and black colours together. En masse they are an attractive contributor to a distinctive native grass landscape.
Suburban back yard.
A full set of pics yet to be uploaded... Notes from National Botanic Gardens... "According to Bluett (1954:4-5) reminiscing about an interview with an early settler many years before, the Aboriginal groups from the Canberra area would go to the Yass area to trade in Autumn, bringing back Kangaroo Grass seeds. [There is some doubt about the veracity of such recent accounts.] Although Themeda is a prolific seeder, only small amounts ripen at the same time and then drop quickly (pers. comm. Susan Winder, ANBG 19/02/01). This combination of traits would make it difficult for people to collect sufficient seed at any one time to be useful resource. Grows in summer, introduced grasses are winter-growing (Gott, 1995) "
Spotted on Dec 2, 2012
Submitted on Dec 2, 2012
2 Comments
Glad you like it lori. The neighbours want me to zip the long grasses out the back but I refuse to do these clumps until they are finished :)
One of my favorite grasses. I love how it looks when dried out, with all the russet colored seed heads. We've got some remnant native pasture, and it looks so lovely.