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Austrostipa mollis
Also called Soft Speargrass
Austrostipa mollis, also known as the soft speargrass or supple speargrass, is a robust, erect tufted perennial speargrass in the Poaceae family. It is native to Australia, and found in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, ACT and Tasmania.
It was first described as Stipa mollis by Robert Brown in 1810 from a specimen collected in Tasmania. In 1996 was transferred to the genus Austrostipa.
The plant grows in moist to dry soils, particularly in heathy woodlands. It is frost and snow tolerant and grows in full sun to semi shade. Can be propagated by seed sown in autumn to early winter. Occurs in a wide range of habitats with sandy and/or low fertility soils (e.g. coastal dunes and headlands, slightly saline flats, shrubland and dry eucalypt forest).
Austrostipa compressa · Austrostipa crinita · Foxtail Spear Grass · Elegant Spear Grass · Coast Spear-grass · Half Bearded Spear Grass · Austrostipa multispiculis · Austrostipa nodosa · Fine Hairy Spear Grass · Spear Grass · Stout Bamboo Grass · Rough Speargrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Austrostipa mollis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
