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Koeleria glauca

Koeleria glauca
Photo: Le.Loup.Gris, CC BY-SA 3.0

Koeleria glauca, blue hair grass, is a small perennial grass with bluish-grey foliage that grows in dunes and sandy places across Europe to Mongolia. It needs sun, sharp drainage and little water.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, free-draining soil; poor soil suits it well.
Temperature
Hardy to around -20 °C; tolerates cold winters and hot summers.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Europe to Mongolia
Climate
temperate

About

Koeleria glauca, commonly known as blue hair grass, is a grass species of the genus Koeleria. It grows in dunes and other sandy places. It is mainly distributed in eastern Central Europe, with its western outposts in the coastal dunes of Jutland and inland dunes in the Rhine Valley.

Other Koeleria plants

Koeleria delavignei · Koeleria loweana · Prairie Junegrass · Prairie Junegrass · Somerset hair grass · Junegrass · Spike trisetum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Koeleria glauca 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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