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Mueller’s Bent

Agrostis muelleriana

Mueller’s Bent
Photo: Edgar, Elizabeth, CC BY 4.0

Mueller's Bent is a small, dense, tufted native grass of cool high-altitude mountains in New Zealand and south-eastern Australia. It is grown mainly as a wild or restoration plant, and it prefers cool, moist, open alpine conditions.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, moist, gritty or stony soil.
Temperature
5–20 °C; tolerates frost and cold, struggles in heat.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Australia, New Zealand
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Agrostis muelleriana is a species of true grass in the tribe Poeae. It is native to New Zealand and Australia.

Where it grows

Agrostis muelleriana is native to New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria).

Other Agrostis plants

Blasdale bentgrass · Velvet bentgrass · Colonial bentgrass · Bentgrass · Clavate bentgrass · Agrostis delislei · California bentgrass · Agrostis dyeri · Elliott's bentgrass · Spike bentgrass · Redtop · Agrostis goughensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agrostis muelleriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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