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Festuca sodiroana

Festuca sodiroana is a perennial tussock grass native to the high Andes of northern Colombia and southern Ecuador, growing at 2600 to 3800 m in forest clearings and stream margins. It is a cool-climate montane grass, best suited to cold, moist conditions rather than warm lowland gardens.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, moisture-retentive loam or humus-rich soil.
Temperature
Cool montane conditions, about 5 to 20 °C; protect from prolonged heat above about 25 °C.
Native range
Colombia to Ecuador
Climate
montane tropical

About

Festuca sodiroana is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. Its habitat spans from southern Ecuador to northern Colombia. It grows at 2600–3800 meters elevation in forest clearings and margins of brooks or rivers.

Other Festuca plants

Festuca floribunda · Festuca abyssinica · Banks Peninsula Blue Tussock · Festuca alatavica · Festuca aloha · Festuca alpina · Altai fescue · Wood Fescue · Amethyst Fescue · Festuca ampla · Festuca amplissima · Festuca argentina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Festuca sodiroana 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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