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Melica pappiana

Melica pappiana is a perennial wild grass from northeast and north China, growing on grassy mountain slopes and larch forests. It is a wild species with little horticultural history, so it is grown mainly by specialist or native-plant gardeners.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and allow the top to dry lightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil or loam, a light woodland-edge mix.
Temperature
5–25 °C; hardy to about -20 °C, protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
China (Jilin, Shanxi)
Climate
temperate

About

Melica pappiana is a species of grass found in China (Jilin and Shanxi). It grows on grassy mountain slopes and larch forests at 500–2,000 metres (1,600–6,600 ft) above sea level.

Other Melica plants

Siberian melicgrass · Melica amethystina · Melica animarum · Melica argentata · Melica argyrea · Bearded melicgrass · Melica arzivencoi · Melica bocquetii · Melica bonariensis · Melica brasiliana · Melica brevicoronata · Oniongrass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melica pappiana 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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