Straggly grass

Wiry Panic Entolasia stricta is a straggling or shrubby wiry rhizomatous perennial grass to 1.5 metres high on poor soils – usually in sandy or sandstone-based areas. Leaves with sheath hairless, blade 1-7 mm wide, very variable. Raceme of flowers 7 cm on branched spikes.

Photo: Robert Whyte

Seed collecting and propagation

Can be propagated by seed or division of clumps.