Japanese name: チュウコバンソウ（中小判草） Scientific name:Briza media
[Overview]
A perennial 40–90 cm tall, rarely found in sunny places such as fields and roadsides.
It has a short, creeping rhizome.
The stem is erect, and dead leaf sheaths overlap at the base.
It produces non-flowering stems bearing only basal leaves around the base of the stem.
The leaves are linear.
A paniculate inflorescence with a drooping tip emerges at the top of the stem, and several spikelets hang down.
The spikelets are oval with a pointed tip, about 0.5 cm long, thick, tinged with reddish purple, and glossy.
Each spikelet consists of several to about 10 florets.
[History]
It arrived in Japan in the early Meiji period and has rarely become naturalized.
[Cultivation]
Propagate from seed.
It grows well in any soil as long as the site is sunny.
Cultivation is easy.
There are no particular pests or diseases.
