Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures ( Grasses,Ornamental & Others), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Paspalum, Dallis Grass (Paspalum dilatatum), Poaceae Family, naturalized, perennial, blooms most of the year, starts declining in late summer and is dormant through the winter

A perennial cluster grass, it is grown as pasture grass (usually mixed with legumes) for grazing by usually cattle and horses in the southern United States. It is a fast growing perennial that grows on a wide variety of soils. Dallis grass does best on moist, alluvial, fertile clays and loamy bottom lands. Withstanding extreme drought due to its extensive root system, it requires adequate rainfall at some time of the year. It is often seeded into rice fields in Texas and Louisiana. After being introduced, it now has naturalized in the USA and is primarily a weed of turfgrass and lawns, but occurs in pastures and along roadsides. Dallis grass is a major weed of wetland edges and wet native grasslands.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/77527/index.html

Dallis grass growing in my St. Agustine grass right before I pulled it up ...