Lemongrass
लेमन ग्रासவாசனைப்புல்സിംബോപോഗോൺ സിട്രാറ്റസ്
Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Poaceae
Also called Lemon Grass, Lemon grass
Formerly Andropogon cerifer, Andropogon citratus, Andropogon roxburghii
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. India, Sri LankaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; Wikipedia 10 °C
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- pasto limón, Hierba luisa, Limonaria
- Portuguese
- capim-limão, Capim-santo, erva-príncipe
- Chinese
- 香茅 (檸檬草), 柠檬草, 香茅草
- Chinese (China)
- 香茅草, 柠檬草
- Indonesian
- Serai
- Japanese
- レモンガヤ
- root
- sitonnèl, Tanglad
- Italian
- Citronella
- Russian
- Челнобородник лимоный
- Danish
- citrongræs
- Thai
- ตะไคร้
- Polish
- Palczatka cytrynowa, Trawa cytrynowa
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Cymbopogon citratus (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.