 It is naturalised in many places, as in Hawaii, and can become weedy, like many plant species with desirable horticultural characteristics.The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia’ records that this plant is "A grass of considerable value on littoral swamps and dry flats near the sea.According to Kirk, it is found sometimes forming a compact turf of dry land, and affording a large supply of succulent herbage for horses, cattle and sheep.