English common name wild sugarcane
Scientific name Saccharum spontaneum L.
Perennial weed – underground stems exhibiting vigorous rhizomatous tillering, straight culms may reach 3 meters tall with diameter up to 1.5 cm., hard but very pitchy green, grey, ivory or white culm, often hollow in the center, rooting at the nodes, internodes usually long and nodes always thicker than internodes, up to 1 meter toothed leaf margins with whitish midrib, large spikelets of florets with long silky silvery white hairs 30-50 cm. long, borne in branching panicle inflorescences (20-60cm tall) that typically tower above the rest of the plant, florets producing a lot of seeds Reproduces with seeds, rhizomes and culm, strive in rich as well as poor soil, grows especially well in sandy soil with high moisture