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submitted 9 months ago by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/plantid@mander.xyz

This grass has been growing in a few of my outdoor pots and I don't know where it came from.

Pacific northwest (Vancouver)

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[-] bot@mander.xyz 18 points 9 months ago

Automatic identification via PlantNet summary

Most likely match: Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.

Common name Scientific name Likeliness
Fiber-optic-grass Isolepis cernua 31.91 %
Longleaf pine Pinus palustris 11.66 %
Grass tree Xanthorrhoea johnsonii 5.61 %
Sumatra pine Pinus merkusii 2.40 %
Balga Xanthorrhoea preissii 2.31 %

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[-] Fracturedfox@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

Wow, that's a pretty cool bot. Kudos to whoever programmed this one.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago

Ok that's pretty cool, I think it nailed it.

Wonder where it came from, I've found it in a bunch of my pots.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

I should move there. That grass is beautiful.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Lots of grasses use wind dispersal for spreading seed. Could be impossible to know where it came from.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Grass ID is usually impossible without seeing the inflorescence. Though I’m no good at it either way.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago

Glad I googled that, I was about to go outside with a black light.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago

Haha well you never know. Maybe some species are fluorescent and others are not. But finding information on that could be a challenge.

But yes I mean flowering structure. Just that most people don’t think of grasses as having flowers.

[-] zories@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

Looks like the kinda grass you’d wanna walk barefoot in a meadow of.

Officially? No idea, sorry.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago
[-] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Man, you just keep making all of us more jealous of your grass. Reel it in, we're suffering here

[-] mihnt@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

I'd love to have some of that for my Toad's enclosure. He'd love it.

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