Torpedo grass is a noxious weed.
To gardeners, it’s a plant they don’t need.
Widespread, it almost never grows from seed.
Some botanists say it hails from Asia.
Others claim the plant comes from Africa.
Either way, this weed made it to America.
Panicum repens is its taxonomic name.
One of the fastest growing weeds is its claim.
The grass grows in wetlands and sand dunes rapidly.
The rhizomes grow along the ground horizontally.
It withstands heat and drought quite hardily.
The plant can be used for forage and made into hay.
However, most people don’t need it any day.
I thank wikipedia.org online encycylopedia for information I needed to write this poem.
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