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Aristida adscensionis
Also called Annual Bristle Grass, Annual Three Awn, Common Needle Grass, Mule Grass, Six Week Three Awn, Six Weeks Tree Awn Grass, Six Weeks Three Awn
Sixweeks threeawn is a small annual grass that forms tufts and grows easily in disturbed ground and waste areas, where it can become a weed. It is a grass best left to colonise bare, poor soil rather than cultivated as an ornamental.
Aristida adscensionis is a species of grass known by the common name sixweeks threeawn. It is native to the Americas but it is distributed nearly worldwide. It grows easily in disturbed and waste areas and has potential to become a weed.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aristida adscensionis 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.
