Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Panicum repens
Torpedo grass, Quack grass, Bullet grass
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
Treatment:
Up to three feet
Upper leaf sheaths are glabrous or hairy. Leaf blades are stiff, linear, flat or
folded, reaching ten inches in length and often having surfaces with a whitish
waxy coating.
Inflorescence is three to nine inches long with erect branches. Flowers nearly
all year
N/A
Grass seeds
Perennial grass with sharp, torpedo-like growing tips. Tolerant of drought
and partial shade, but ideally suited to moist to wet sandy or organic soils.
Reproduces principally via rhizomes.
Foliar with high concentration of Rodeo
APIRS- http://aquat1.ifas.edu
Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in
Florida’s Natural Areas by K.A Langeland, K.
Craddock Burks
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