The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Arctagrostis latifolia
Also called Arctic Grass, Russian Grass, Broad Leaved Arctic Bent, Polargrass, Wide Leaved Polargrass, Broadleaf Arctagrostis, Reed Polargrass
Wideleaf polargrass is a long-lived, mat-forming perennial grass of the high Arctic and subarctic, growing from a creeping rhizome. It is a cold-hardy wild grass best suited to cold, moist northern conditions rather than ordinary gardens.
Arctagrostis latifolia, the wideleaf polargrass, is a widespread species of grass (family Poaceae), with a circumpolar distribution in the high Arctic. It is a tetraploid with chromosome number 2n = 4x = 28.
Arctagrostis latifolia has a global circumpolar distribution. In North America, its native range includes Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Ontario, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Labrador and Greenland. In Europe its range includes Finland, Norway, Svalbard, North European Russia and East European Russia. In Asia it includes West Siberia, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Kazakhstan, Kamchatka, Yakutsk and Mongolia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arctagrostis latifolia 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.
