For soil:
-Root system is tough making it difficult to pull weed out of yard.
-Can be used to stabilize / provide structure...Read More to sandy soil.
-Can grow on very shallow or compacted soils.
-Drought tolerant.
-Most people consider it a weed.
For food:
-Young livestock eat it.
-Attracts song birds, as they love to eat the seed.
-The seedlings can be eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
-In India, the seeds are often cooked whole or ground into flour.
Medicinal:
-Used to treat fever.
-The whole plant, but especially the root, is anthelmintic, astringent, depurative, diuretic, febrifuge, laxative and sudorific
-Used to treat bladder disorders, liver complaints, relieve pain caused by straining the abdominal muscles.
-Used to treat influenza, hypertension, oliguria and retention of urine.
-Apply externally to open wounds to stop bleeding.
-The whole plant is boiled with black sage for use in a sitting bath to treat fevers, colds, malaria, and for post-childbirth cleansing of a mother.
-The plant can be used fresh or dried.
-Fresh leaf juice is used as an anthelmintic, and is also prescribed for women after giving birth.
-A poultice of the leaves is applied to sprains and back pains.
-A decoction of the macerated leaves is used to treat skin rashes.
-A decoction of the roots is used to treat fevers and asthma.
Other Uses
-The stems are used to make mats, baskets, etc.:
-The plant is suitable for paper manufacture.
A common annual weed in the South up into the southern Midwest, up to the south end of the Great Lakes. Sort of pretty for a weed grass w...Read Moreith the several flowering strands like a goose's foot.
It is a weed over here, and in our climate it grows anywhere. Because of its small size, it´s not as agressive as other weedy grasses, l...Read Moreike Guinea Grass (Panicum maximum, a fast growing and spreading 2+ meters tall grass), so it´s easier to control.
However, lots of people use this plant as remedy. It´s so popular in some places, that people even cultivate them.
Don't mean to be a "smartie", but this is considered a weed here -- invades every lawn on every street. If anyone wants some, I'll be gl...Read Moread to dig up mine and send it.
Also known as Crowfoot Grass, it is an annual from Asia.
Mostly seen in the South, it thrives in about any kind of soil. T...Read Morehe seeds are borne on fingerlike spikes ,usually in a fingerlike arrangement.
For soil:
-Root system is tough making it difficult to pull weed out of yard.
-Can be used to stabilize / provide structure...Read More
A common annual weed in the South up into the southern Midwest, up to the south end of the Great Lakes. Sort of pretty for a weed grass w...Read More
Tough to mow. Unsightly but harmless. But on the sandy shoulder of a road in Florida, it may be the only ground cover, so I give it a neutral.
It is a weed over here, and in our climate it grows anywhere. Because of its small size, it´s not as agressive as other weedy grasses, l...Read More
Don't mean to be a "smartie", but this is considered a weed here -- invades every lawn on every street. If anyone wants some, I'll be gl...Read More
Also known as Crowfoot Grass, it is an annual from Asia.
Mostly seen in the South, it thrives in about any kind of soil. T...Read More