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Luzula crinita is a small perennial rush from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and Macquarie Island, forming stiff dark green tufts. It is a cool-climate, moisture-loving plant rarely grown outside its native range.
Luzula crinita is a species of flowering plant in the rush family that is native to the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and Australia. The specific epithet comes from the Latin crinitus (hairy tufted), with reference to the leaves.
The plant is found on New Zealand's Antipodes, Auckland, and Campbell Islands, as well as Australia's Macquarie Island. It grows in Agrostis grassland, fellfield, and along the margins of marshes, from sea level to an altitude of 370 m (1,210 ft). It flowers from October to January.
Hairy woodrush · Alpine woodrush · Curved woodrush · Field woodrush · Luzula canariensis · Pacific woodrush · Northern woodrush · Forked woodrush · Sourthern woodrush · Hawai'i woodrush · Hitchcock's Smooth Woodrush · Luzula longiflora
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Luzula crinita 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.
