What indigenous grass should I plant in my garden?

SOME USEFUL GRASSES FOR GARDENS

Short grasses:

• Ehrharta erecta (shade ehrharta)*
• Eragrostis capensis (heart-seed love grass)
• Eragrostis racemosa (narrow heart love grass)
• Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)*

Medium height grasses:

• Eragrostis curvula (weeping love grass)
• Harpochloa falx (caterpillar grass)
• Heteropogon contortus (spear grass)
• Imperata cylindrica (cottonwool grass)#
• Melinis nerviglumis (bristle-leaved red top)
• Melinis repens (Natal red top
• Themeda triandra (red grass)
• Tristachya leucothrix (hairy trident grass)
• Aristida junciformis (n’Gongoni)

   

Tall grasses:

•  Arundinella nepalensis (river grass)#
• Bothriochloa insculpta (pinhole grass)   
• Cymbopogon excavatus (turpentine grass)
• Hyparrhenia hirta (common thatching grass)
• Miscanthus capensis (daba grass)
• Panicum maximum (guinea grass)*
• Setaria sphacelata (common bristle grass)#  

                          

 * shady habitats

# moist habitats