Bermuda grass
ಗರಿಕೆಹುಲ್ಲುदुर्वाஅறுகம்புல்
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 11 cm
- wide
- 11 cm
Poaceae
Also called Bermudagrass, Indian doab, Finger Grass, Couch Grass, Quick Grass
Formerly Agrostis linearis, Agrostis stellata, Capriola dactylon, Chloris maritima, and 39 more
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. & Subtrop. Old World to AustraliaKew'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
- 8 cm to 15 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 8 cm to 15 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- acacahuiztli, guixi-biguiñi, acazacahuiscle
- myn
- canzuuc
- Spanish
- Gallitos, Grama, gramón
- Hawaiian
- manienie
- French
- Chiendent pied-de-poule, Petit chiendent, Chiendent fil-de-fer
- Chinese
- 狗牙根, 铁线草
- Czech
- troskut prstnatý
- German
- Hundszahngras, Gewöhnliches Hundszahngras
- Japanese
- ギョウギシバ
- Russian
- Свинорой пальчатый
- Finnish
- mattovarvasheinä
- Italian
- Gramigna rossa, Dente di Cane
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 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Cynodon dactylon (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.