Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies  of Zihuatanejo

ORDER POALES

Rhodes Grass

Chloris gayana

• Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

• Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

• Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

• Monocots (Class Liliopsida)

• Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies (Order Poales)

It is commonly found in wet fields, irrigated cropfields, riverbanks, roadsides and ditches. Flowers are found in the form of a terminal spikelet. They are golden brown or straw coloured and grow from the central stem. The floral spikelets grow perpendicular to the flowerstalk with spikes narrow, linear and flat.