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Elymus stebbinsii
Also called Stebbins' Wheat Grass
Parish wheatgrass (Elymus stebbinsii) is a native perennial wild rye grass found in forests and chaparral across many coastal and inland mountain ranges of California, growing up to 1.2 m tall. It is a species, not a genus, and is best grown from seed in well-drained soil with summer dryness, as is typical of California native grasses.
Elymus stebbinsii is a species of wild rye known by the common name Parish wheatgrass. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the forests and chaparral of many of the coastal and inland mountain ranges. It is a perennial grass growing up to 1.2 meters tall. The inflorescence is a narrow, linear series of single-spikelet nodes up to 25 centimeters long. Each spikelet is up to 2 centimeters long with a short awn of just a few millimeters.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Elymus stebbinsii 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.
