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Deschampsia elongata
Also called Slender Hair Grass
Slender hairgrass is a perennial grass that forms dense clumps, sometimes over a metre tall, with thin flower spikes lying flat against the stems. It grows best in open sites with moist soil and is mainly used as a native ornamental or for naturalistic planting.
Deschampsia elongata is a species of grass known by the common name slender hairgrass.
It is native to western North America from Alaska to Wyoming to northern Mexico, and South America in Chile. It grows at all elevations, often in moist areas.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Deschampsia elongata 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.
