Size: 10 to 30cm, spreading.
Habitat: Estuaries, saltmarshes, primary dune scrub.
Form: Rhizomatous perennial grass with leafy stems and thick, extensively creeping scaly rhizomes.
Foliage: Pairs of rigid, wiry leaves with overlapping sheaths and short blades (to 50mm long) and in rolled margins.
Flowers: Dense, narrow, spike-like panicle to 60mm long with tiny, dark flowered spikelets all year.
Sporobolus virginicus is regionally significant.
Sources
Burbidge, N. Australian Grasses
Gray, M. & Knight J. Flora of Melbourne
Wills, T. et al Natural heritage assessment of sites within the City of Port Phillip
Sporobolus virginicus
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