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Gastridium ventricosum
Also called Crawdad Claws
Nit grass is a small annual wild grass of Mediterranean and western European fields, grassland and waste ground, grown mainly as a curiosity. It thrives in full sun with well-drained soil and needs little attention once established.
Gastridium ventricosum is a species of grass known by the common name nit-grass (British Isles) or nit grass (USA). This is an annual grass bearing a long, thin, smooth inflorescence of spikelets. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and southwestern Asia but has become naturalized in scattered locations elsewhere.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gastridium ventricosum 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.
