Dactyloctenium aegyptium

Durban crowfoot, Durban Crowfoot

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Durban crowfoot is a naturalized perennial herb found in southern San Joaquin Valley (Kern County), southern California coastal areas, Peninsular Ranges, and the Desert Southwest at elevations below 300 meters in disturbed places. Flowering from July to November, this plant produces small spikelets with pale green to tan flower clusters. Growing with spreading stems 10 to 35 centimeters tall that root at lower nodes, it forms dense ground-covering patches. Its leaves are narrow, 2 to 8 millimeters wide, with margins edged in distinctive bulbous-based hairs and reaching 5 to 20 centimeters in length. Its characteristic spike-like branches typically appear in clusters of 2 to 5, each branch 1 to 6 centimeters long.

Habitat: Disturbed places

Bloom period: Jul-Nov

Elevation: < 300 m

Bioregions: SnJV (Kern Co.), SCo, PR, DSon

California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial, Kern, Ventura, Alameda, Stanislaus, Monterey, Santa Cruz

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.