Common Carpetgrass is native to the warm parts of North, Central, and South America, including North Carolina. It is a warm-season, stoloniferous perennial grass found in sandy pine forests, fields, lawns, and roadsides. It has a spreading habit and is soil compaction and heat tolerant, but not drought tolerant. This plant spreads by stolons and seeds. It prefers wet soils and is commonly found growing in ditches. It will grow in poor soils in sun or partial shade. In NC it is found in the coastal and Piedmont areas. It often goes dormant in winter in NC. It is often used as a lawn grass in recreational areas, a cover crop or in pastures. See the NC State Extension TurfFiles entry for Common Carpetgrass for more information.
Curated pairwise relationships between this plant and others in the library — who feeds
whom, who competes, who confuses the pests. Green reads as a good pairing, red as one to avoid.
No curated interactions recorded for this species yet.
Also noted by NC State
Related species the NC State Plant Toolbox flags for this plant — look-alikes to tell
apart, and plants that play a similar role in a planting. Ones we carry in the library are linked.