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Agrostis trachychlaena
Agrostis trachychlaena is a rare perennial grass found only on Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands in the Tristan da Cunha group, in subantarctic grassland. It is not a garden plant, and care information is limited to what is known about bentgrasses generally.
Agrostis trachychlaena is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is endemic to Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands, Tristan da Cunha. Its natural habitat is subantarctic grassland.
Less than 250 mature individuals are thought to exist.
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 trachychlaena 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.
