Click on image to enlarge. Kikuyugrass is a low-growing perennial grass.
Seedlings are light green and narrow with a few short hairs.
The ligule has several fine hairs unequal in length. There is no auricle. The mature plant forms a low mat with creeping underground stems and produces stout creeping stems on the surface of the soil that root at the nodes. Grass ID illustration. The Regents of the University of California.