Chrysopogon zizanioides
ಲಾವಂಚखसखसவெட்டிவேர்
Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Poaceae
Formerly Anatherum muricatum, Anatherum zizanioides, Andropogon muricatus, Andropogon zizanioides, and 10 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. India to Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4–8 ft; Wikipedia 150–150 cm
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Hottest it survives
- 55 °CRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 培地茅, 香根草
- Simplified Chinese
- 香根草
- Hindi
- खसखस
- Tamil
- வெட்டிவேர்
- Telugu
- వట్టివేరు
- Kannada
- ಲಾವಂಚ
- Marathi
- वाळा
- Malayalam
- രാമച്ചം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Chrysopogon zizanioides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.