Tanglehead

Heteropogon contortus

Inclusion rationale

Why did we include this species on our website? Because it was mentioned in the following source(s):

• Conservation value of the Egoli Granite Grassland, an endemic grassland in Gauteng, South Africa
• The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Strelitzia 19 (2006)
• PlantZAfrica
• Field Guide to The Wildflowers of Witwatersrand & Pretoria, including Magaliesberg and Suikerbosrand

Features data

The following sources have provided data on features for this species.

Source document	Features
PlantZAfrica Dec. 17, 2025, 10:47 a.m.	Useful Attractive Rocky habitat Sun
Field Guide to The Wildflowers of Witwatersrand & Pretoria, including Magaliesberg and Suikerbosrand Dec. 16, 2025, 6:55 p.m.	Supports grazers/browsers Sun Semi-shade Perennial Climax species
PlantZAfrica Jan. 1, 2026, 8:34 a.m.	Easy to grow Useful Attractive Sun Grass Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy Flowering data

Photo credits

You can see the credits underneath each photo of the species pages as well. Credits, in order of appearance:

• (c) Siddarth Machado, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Siddarth Machado source
• no rights reserved, uploaded by 葉子 source
• no rights reserved, uploaded by 葉子 source
• (c) jrebman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by jrebman source
• (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Tony Rebelo source
• (c) Robert Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Robert Taylor source
• no rights reserved, uploaded by 葉子 source
• (c) Marco Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Marco Schmidt source
• (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Tony Rebelo source
• (c) Geoffrey Sinclair, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Geoffrey Sinclair source