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"It is perhaps the most invasive grass species in the world, Cogongrass, Imperata cylindrica, and is on the list of the top ten most invasive plants on the planet. Where I live there are fields of the stuff. Florida has a million acres of cogongrass. It infests a billion acres worldwide. Spreading by seed and rhizomes Cogongrass invades 35 different crops including rice, cotton, coffee, tea, oil palm, coconut and rubber plantations. Some animals will eat it but don’t like to because it’s edges are cutting sharp, like saw grass.  Cogongrass is hostile to man and animal alike. Even goats, the garbage disposals of the animal kingdom won’t eat it. Starving cattle will but only when it is young before it develops sharp edges. Pigs, however, relish its roots (60% of its biomass is underground.) Humans can tackle it in various ways. As Cornucopia II says on page 177:"

"“Immature flower spikes are sucked or eaten They are sometime cooked as a potherb, fried, or put into soups. The slightly sweet rhizomes are chewed or eaten and yield a starch used in making beer. They are often mixed with a purple variety of sugar cane to form a cooling thirst-quenching, digestive beverage which is occasionally available in Asian markets.”"

"I would add a warning: The blades have small silica crystals which as dust could injure your lungs. Thus if harvesting or destroying a lot of it a mask might be appropriate."

"How Cogongrass got from Eastern Asia to America is a bit of an argument.  Some say by accident in 1912 via Louisiana, others say through Grand Bay, Alabama, that same year as packing material for Satsuma oranges from Japan. What we do know for certain is that the U.S. government imported it intentionally in the 1930s and 1940’s, for fodder and erosion control (like Kudzu). It now infests Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, with pockets from Virginia to Texas. Thus Imperata cylindrica is a Federal Noxious Weed under the Plant Protection Act.  It cannot not be imported or transported between States without first getting a federal permit. It is classified as a noxious weed in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Hawaii. Seventy-five percent of the land in Alabama is infested with it. Around 2017 researchers imported an Indonesian gall-making midge, Orseolia javanica that destroys cogongrass but was a failure. The fly refused to have sex so far from home, and is also food for other insects."

Key Topics & Focus Areas for eattheweeds.com:

Cogongrass Morass

The false mastic, not quite a miracle

Green Deane’s “Itemized” Plant Profile

Sedum: Stonecrop

Harvest Moonwort

Soapberry, Buffaloberry