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Pendantgrass

Dupontia fulva

Pendantgrass
Photo: Jose Hernandez @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database, Public domain

Pendant grass is a hardy perennial grass of arctic and subarctic tundra wetlands in Eurasia and North America. It is a wild species, not a garden plant, and needs cold, wet, open conditions to thrive.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently wet, as it grows in boggy tundra.
Soil
Wet, peaty or acidic soil in a cold, moist setting.
Temperature
Tolerates very cold conditions; suited to subarctic climates and cool summers, poor in heat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Subarctic to Canada
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Dupontia fulva, commonly known as pendant grass, is a species of grass native to arctic and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America (northern Russia, Finland, Sweden, Svalbard, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada), where it grows in tundra wetlands.

Other Dupontia plants

Fisher's tundragrass · Tundragrass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dupontia fulva 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.

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