Australian fingergrass

Chloris truncata, the Australian fingergrass or windmill grass, is a tufted perennial grass of the Poaceae forming compact clumps about 30 cm across with light green, flattened, glaucous foliage and a prominent pale midvein. The leaf blades are 10–15 cm long with characteristically blunt (truncate) tips and flattened sheaths at the base. Its diagnostic inflorescence is a digitate cluster of slender, radiating spikes up to about 30 cm across — the 'windmill' arrangement that inspires its common names — bearing two-awned spikelets that turn black at maturity. Seed is produced in both summer and winter. The species is native and widespread across mainland Australia, occurring in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia on a variety of soils in open pasture, roadsides and disturbed ground, and is grown to a small extent as an ornamental or low-maintenance lawn grass.