Para Grass

Urochloa mutica

your-OCK-low-ah  (or your-oh-CLOE-ah)

MUTE-ah-cah

Poaceae

Native to: South America

Florida abundance and distribution:   Central and southern Peninsula.  In ditches and moist habitats, often forming massive stands.

Recognition: Large coarse space-filling grass of wet areas, notably pubescent, especially on the leaf sheaths

Contributed by:  George Rogers