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Agrostis pallescens is a small, tufted native New Zealand grass that grows in alpine and subalpine mountain habitats. It is a wild species rather than a garden plant, so care is only relevant to growing it in a native or alpine planting.
Agrostis pallescens is a grass endemic to New Zealand, which was described by Thomas Cheeseman in 1921.
Agrostis pallescens is endemic to New Zealand. In the North Island it is found only in the central mountains. In the South Island it is found from Nelson along Main Divide to Fiordland, and rare in the east. It is also found on Stewart Island/Rakiura.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agrostis pallescens 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.
