Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon
Australian
Distribution: Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia,
Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, A.C.T.
Notes.
Extensively cultivated as a lawn grass, especially in the tropics, and as a
pasture grass in some areas; becomes dominant after heavy grazing of native
pasture on soils of moderate fertility; a very persistent weed of roadsides,
gardens and pastures.
Throughout Australia
including Lord Howe Is. Virtually cosmopolitan; apparently native in warm
regions, usually cultivated or naturalized in temperate regions.
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