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Festuca californica
California fescue is a clumping perennial bunch grass native to California and Oregon, grown for its blue-green tufts and airy flower sprays. It thrives in dry conditions once established and needs good drainage.
Festuca californica is a species of grass known by the common name California fescue.
This fescue species is native to the U.S. states of California and Oregon, where it is a member of many plant communities, including chaparral and oak woodlands, the former of which can be found in Northern and Southern coastal California and the latter in Central and Northern California.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Festuca californica 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.
