Digitaria brownii

Digitaria brownii, commonly known as cotton panic-grass or Brown's finger grass, is a tufted perennial grass in the family Poaceae native to Australia and parts of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. It grows in open woodland, grassland and disturbed ground on a wide range of soils across much of mainland Australia. The plant forms loose to dense tussocks 20 to 80 centimeters tall, with slender erect to ascending culms and narrow flat or folded leaf blades 5 to 25 centimeters long that are often covered in soft white hairs. Inflorescences are open panicles, with several slender ascending or spreading racemes bearing paired spikelets along one side; the spikelets are clothed in long silky white hairs that give the seed heads a cottony, silvery appearance, especially conspicuous when the grass flowers in summer and autumn. It is valued as palatable native pasture forage in many parts of its range.