Prickly couch - Zoysia minima
Endemic to New Zealand this tiny creeping dune grass a rice grass and rice botanists from Japan and other major rice growing countries have been known to visit New Zealand just to see it!
Widely used as a commercial lawn species where hard wearing dry tolerant cover is needed.
Photographed at Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury.
North Island south from Auckland and Coromandel. South Island scattered from Nelson, Marlborough south to Central Otago
Coastal to inland on sand dunes, sandy ground, and gravel. From sea level to 600 m.
A mat-forming species.
Prickly couch - Zoysia minima
Endemic to New Zealand this tiny creeping dune grass a rice grass and rice botanists from Japan and other major rice growing countries have been known to visit New Zealand just to see it!
Widely used as a commercial lawn species where hard wearing dry tolerant cover is needed.
Photographed at Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury.
North Island south from Auckland and Coromandel. South Island scattered from Nelson, Marlborough south to Central Otago
Coastal to inland on sand dunes, sandy ground, and gravel. From sea level to 600 m.
A mat-forming species.