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Slender Hair Grass

Deschampsia gracillima

Slender Hair Grass
Photo: Heidi Meudt, CC BY 4.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
Tasmania, New Zealand South I., Antipodean Is. (Auckland I.)
Climate
temperate

About

Deschampsia gracillima is a species of grass, which was first described in 1891 by the botanist Thomas Kirk.

It is native to the South Island of New Zealand, and to Tasmania, where it is a threatened species.

Other Deschampsia plants

Deschampsia aurea · Coirón Suave · Calamagrostis teretifolia · Tussock grass · Antarctic hair grass · Scribner's Grass · Tufted hairgrass · Deschampsia chapmanii · Annual hairgrass · Slender hairgrass · Deschampsia robusta · Deschampsia wacei

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Deschampsia gracillima by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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