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Brachypodium firmifolium

Brachypodium firmifolium is a small perennial grass from mountain slopes, usually found in damp shade near streams. It is grown mainly as a wild or woodland-style grass, and it does best with steady moisture and partial shade.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass, Perennial
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, as it naturally grows by streams and in damp ground.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, well-drained loam.
Temperature
10–20 °C is comfortable; tolerates cool mountain conditions and frost.
How easy
Easy

About

Brachypodium firmifolium is a yellowish or glaucous-green perennial grass with slender erect or decumbent culms up to 45 cm high. Flowering: June–July.

Where it grows

Igneous mountainsides, usually in damp shaded grounds by streams and cataracts, sometimes in open forest or meadows at 1000–1700 m altitude.

Other Brachypodium plants

Purple false brome · Brachypodium hybridum · Heath false brome · Mediterranean False Brome · Slender false brome · False brome

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brachypodium firmifolium 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.

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