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Poaceae

Tumble windmill grass

Chloris verticillata Nutt.

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Chloris

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Tumble windmill grass: Collected in 2017 just south of Miles City at the Custer County Cemetery. The Custer County Extension agent says they have been mistaking this grass for Digitar
Photo: Matt Lavin, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (1)
English
Tumble windmill grass

Characteristics

Growth habit
Graminoid
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Lower 48 states: native

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Sources: classification from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.