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False wheatgrass

Leymus chinensis

Leymus chinensis is a perennial wild rye grass native to northern China, Korea, Mongolia and Russia, growing 40 to 90 cm tall. It is a hardy steppe grass grown mainly for forage and soil stabilisation rather than as a garden or houseplant.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall once roots are deep.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor and alkaline soil.
Temperature
Very cold hardy, suited to continental climates; roughly -30 to 30 °C.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Not known to be toxic

About

Leymus chinensis, commonly known as false wheatgrass or Chinese rye grass, is a species of wild rye native to China, Korea, Mongolia and Russia.

Other Leymus plants

Leymus akmolinensis · Colorado wildrye · Altai wildrye · Sand ryegrass · Basin wildrye · Giant wildrye · Downy ryegrass · American dunegrass · Manystem wildrye · Mammoth wildrye · Salina Wildrye · Beardless wildrye

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leymus chinensis 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.

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