Panicum simile

Panicum simile, commonly known as two-colour panic or similar panic, is a tufted perennial grass in the family Poaceae endemic to eastern Australia, occurring in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The plant typically grows 30 to 100 centimetres tall, forming loose to dense tussocks from a short knotty rootstock without rhizomes. The culms are slender, erect or geniculately ascending, smooth, and branch at the lower nodes. The leaf blades are flat, linear, 5 to 25 centimetres long and 2 to 6 millimetres wide, with finely scabrous margins and a short membranous-fringed ligule. The inflorescence is an open, diffuse panicle 10 to 25 centimetres long with delicate, ascending to spreading branches bearing solitary spikelets at the tips of slender pedicels. Each spikelet is ovate, 2.5 to 3.5 millimetres long, greenish or purplish, two-flowered with the lower floret sterile. The species is a common component of native grassland, eucalypt woodland understorey, and roadside vegetation on a range of soils.