Cogon Grass

Imperata cylindrica

Inclusion rationale

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

• 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
Field Guide to The Wildflowers of Witwatersrand & Pretoria, including Magaliesberg and Suikerbosrand Dec. 16, 2025, 6:55 p.m.	Useful Near water Sun Semi-shade Perennial Climax species
PlantZAfrica Jan. 1, 2026, 8:36 a.m.	Supports birds Easy to grow Useful Medicinal Edible Sun Semi-shade Grass Pioneer species Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy Color data Flowering data

Photo credits

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

• No machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Imperata_cylindrica_tigaya_colony.jpg)
• no rights reserved, uploaded by 葉子 source
• (c) janet_taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by janet_taylor source
• (c) Cheng-Tao Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Cheng-Tao Lin source
• (c) Cheng-Tao Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Cheng-Tao Lin source
• (c) Cheng-Tao Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Cheng-Tao Lin source
• (c) scallions, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by scallions source
• (c) scallions, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by scallions source
• (c) scallions, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by scallions source
• (c) Ishara Udawela, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ishara Udawela source
• no rights reserved source