It can be found in more regions, as well as on many Pacific Islands, as an introduced species and a common weed of disturbed habitat.

It is naturalized in Hawaii, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Midway Atoll, and other areas.

[2] Sporobolus indicus is a perennial bunchgrass producing a tuft of stems up to about a meter (3 feet) tall.

The inflorescence is a dense, narrow, spikelike panicle of grayish or light brown spikelets, its base sometimes sheathed by the upper leaf.

It also states that Sporobolus indicus is "A fine, open, pasture grass, found throughout the colonies.