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Bouteloua parryi
Parry's grama is a small annual grass from the southwestern US and northern Mexico that grows in dry rocky slopes and desert grasslands. It is a forage grass that thrives in full sun and poor, dry soil.
Bouteloua parryi, colloquially known as Parry's grama, is a grass species in the grama genus native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Parry's grama prefers rocky slopes or desert grasslands between 910 m (3,000 ft) and 1,700 m (5,500 ft), although it can grow anywhere between sealevel and 2,000 m (6,600 ft). It is present in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bouteloua parryi 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.
