Paspalidium geminatum
Egyptian paspalidium

The common native, Egyptian paspalidium, might first be encountered as long leaves on tufts of thick stems bent at the base, leaning over slow-moving or still water.


Egyptian paspalidium is a grass. stem tufted, leaning to erect, thick, bent at base, to 5 ft. long, rooting at nodes; leaf blades flat, folded or rolled, to 1/2 in. thick, to 18 in. long; sheaths long, overlapping; ligule a fringe of short hairs; inflorescence spike-like, 6-20 short branches ascending close to axis, each branch ending in short bristle; spikelets in 2 rows, each pressed into a cavity

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