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Calamagrostis ophitidis
Also called Serpentine Reed Grass
Serpentine reedgrass is a perennial bunch grass native only to California, growing on serpentine soils on mountain slopes north of the San Francisco Bay Area. It forms clumps about 60 cm to 1 m tall and is best suited to matching its native dry, mineral-rich soil.
Calamagrostis ophitidis, the serpentine reedgrass, is a species of bunch grass in the family Poaceae.
It is endemic to California, where it grows in the serpentine soils of the mountain slopes north of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calamagrostis ophitidis 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.
