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Bouteloua eludens
Santa Rita grama is a perennial grass native to dry, rocky slopes and desert grasslands in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. It is a rare native species best suited to dry, open sites with good drainage.
Bouteloua eludens, colloquially known as Santa Rita grama or sometimes Santa Rita Mountain grama, is a grass species in the grama genus native to southern Arizona in the United States and northern Sonora in Mexico.
Santa Rita grama prefers to grow at heights of 4,000 ft (1,200 m) to 5,000 ft (1,500 m), and in dry rocky slopes or desert grasslands. It is known to live in the Santa Rita Mountains (from which it takes its name), the Santa Catalina Mountains, Nogales, and parts of Sonora. It is a fairly rare species across its range.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bouteloua eludens 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.
