The Chacoan mara eat grasses and other herbage. The climbing herbage can become weedy and dense, sometimes covering other vegetation. The herbage is generally hairy to woolly or bristly. It is an annual herb with blue-gray, waxy herbage and pale pink flowers. The tithes of pannage and herbage were given to Sele Priory in 1235. The low land is sandy or stony, but covered with wood & herbage. The herbage is coated in rough hairs. As the weather gets warmer, they disperse and are often found on dense, low herbage. It is sometimes aquatic, its herbage floating in small bodies of water. The herbage usually has a coating of star-shaped hairs. The roots usually require a moist, cool substrate, while the herbage can take full sun. The herbage is hairless to lightly hairy. Enclosures were made in Chippenham and Blackmore for herbage and pannage. The herbage may be sticky in texture. The herbage is hairy in texture.