Axonopus fissifolius

Axonopus fissifolius, common carpetgrass, is a stoloniferous perennial grass in the family Poaceae, native to the Americas from the southeastern United States through Central America and the Caribbean to South America, and widely naturalised in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia and Oceania. The plant forms a low, dense sward with creeping stolons rooting at the nodes and erect flowering culms 15 to 60 centimetres tall. Leaf blades are flat, soft, 2 to 10 centimetres long and 3 to 8 millimetres wide, with rounded or blunt tips and ciliate margins near the base. The inflorescence is a slender terminal panicle of two to four digitately or sub-digitately arranged racemes, each bearing pairs of small, pale, obovate spikelets about 2 millimetres long set in two rows along one side of the rachis. It thrives on moist, low-fertility, acidic soils and is used as a pasture and lawn grass in warm climates.