What's this grass?

This grass has been growing in a few of my outdoor pots and I don't know where it came from.

Pacific northwest (Vancouver)

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12 Comments

bot@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Automatic identification via PlantNet summary

Most likely match: Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.

Common name Scientific name Likeliness
Fiber-optic-grass Isolepis cernua 31.91 %
Longleaf pine Pinus palustris 11.66 %
Grass tree Xanthorrhoea johnsonii 5.61 %
Sumatra pine Pinus merkusii 2.40 %
Balga Xanthorrhoea preissii 2.31 %

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Fracturedfox@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2y

Wow, that's a pretty cool bot. Kudos to whoever programmed this one.

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ok that's pretty cool, I think it nailed it.

Wonder where it came from, I've found it in a bunch of my pots.

radix@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

I should move there. That grass is beautiful.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Lots of grasses use wind dispersal for spreading seed. Could be impossible to know where it came from.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Grass ID is usually impossible without seeing the inflorescence. Though I’m no good at it either way.

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Glad I googled that, I was about to go outside with a black light.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 2y

Haha well you never know. Maybe some species are fluorescent and others are not. But finding information on that could be a challenge.

But yes I mean flowering structure. Just that most people don’t think of grasses as having flowers.

zories@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Looks like the kinda grass you’d wanna walk barefoot in a meadow of.

Officially? No idea, sorry.

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's super soft.

sir_pronoun@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Man, you just keep making all of us more jealous of your grass. Reel it in, we're suffering here

mihnt@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

I'd love to have some of that for my Toad's enclosure. He'd love it.