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Deschampsia antarctica
Antarctic hair grass is a small, tufted perennial grass native to the cold, windswept islands and western Antarctic Peninsula, where it forms low clumps in wet, sheltered spots. It is a species, not a houseplant, and is grown only in specialist or cold-climate collections.
Deschampsia antarctica, the Antarctic hair grass, is one of two vascular flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort).
It is usually less than a half a foot in diameter.
In Antarctica, the plant can be found forming low clumps in wet, protected habitats.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Deschampsia antarctica 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.
