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Red Grass
Rooigras · Themeda triandra
A key grazing grass of Kruger's grasslands and a sign of veld in good condition. Whole plains can take on a warm reddish tinge when it seeds and dries off.
Log your Red Grass sighting — free →How to identify it
A tufted perennial grass, green to blue-green when young and flushing pink then reddish-brown as it matures. Look for the drooping, flattened seed heads with distinctive bent, dark awns.
Flowers & fruit
Summer to autumn (roughly Nov-May), with reddish-brown flowering and seed heads
Browsed by
A key grazing grass for zebra, blue wildebeest, buffalo and other grazers, and highly palatable, especially while young and green.
Where to see it in Kruger
In grasslands across the park, especially the open eastern basalt plains and other sweeter-soil grasslands.
Did you know
It is one of the most important grazing grasses in the park, but it hates being overgrazed and actually thrives on the occasional fire.
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