Subtropical Grasses

Rhodes grass is utilized more for grazing than for hay.

Smutsfinger is a sweet grass and keeps its palatability until late in winter.

Blue buffalo is a grass that is adapted to warm, low rainfall areas in SA.

Bottle brush is a very palatable and excellent fodder grass.

Weeping lovegrass is mostly utilised as a hay crop, performing best in summer rainfall areas.

Urochloa Sabi grass is native to Africa.

Panicum is a summer growing perennial grass that is widely used in cattle grazing systems.

Panicum coloratum is a species of grass known by common names like small buffalo grass.

Kikuyu is an aggressive and vigorous perennial grass that spreads by surface.

It is predominantly used in permanent pastures for grazing or cut-and carry.

Bahia grass is one of the earliest species adopted as a permanent sown pasture.