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Fuegian Couch

Elymus magellanicus

Fuegian Couch
Photo: Хомелка, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
S. South America, Falkland Is.
Climate
temperate

About

Elymus magellanicus, the Magellan wheatgrass, is a clump-forming grass native to South America. It grows 1½-ft high and wide and has metallic blue leaves. Nearly evergreen in mild climates, it is a good container plant.

Other Elymus plants

Alaskan wheatgrass · Thinopyrum acutum · California bottlebrush grass · Canada wildrye · Bearded wheatgrass · Campeiostachys dahurica · Squirreltail · Blue wildrye · RS wheatgrass · Eastern bottlebrush grass · Thickspike wheatgrass · Early wildrye

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Elymus magellanicus 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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