Plant Details

Scientific Name: Capillipedium spicigerum
  • Common Name: Scented-top Grass
  • Type: Herb, Grass - robust tufted Perennial
  • Family: Poaceae
  • Size: 1.5 metres
  • Flowers: Open purplish Panicle. Individual short racemes on slender secondary branches.
  • Species List: Grass book, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Batianoff, TAFE, Botany 07, Cranks Creek, Lake Cooroibah

Cultural Notes

Seedhead gives off pleasant scent when crushed.

Identification Notes

Racemes 3-8 jointed. Racemes composed of 3-8 Spikelet pairs. 

Nodes usually Bearded with a rim of short reddish hairs. 

Landscaping Notes

Attractive tufted Grass with landscaping potential

  • Capillipedium spicigerum
  • Capillipedium spicigerum
  • Capillipedium spicigerum
  • Capillipedium spicigerum
  • Capillipedium spicigerum
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