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Nolina bigelovii
Also called Bigelow's Tree Beargrass, Bigelow Bear Grass, Bigelow Nolina
Bigelow's nolina is a desert shrub or tree-like plant with a trunk and a dense rosette of long, shreddy leaves, native to the dry deserts of the southwestern US and northwest Mexico. The key to growing it is full sun, excellent drainage, and very little water.
Nolina bigelovii (Bigelow's nolina or beargrass) is a flowering plant native to the Southwestern United States, California, and northwest Mexico. It grows in the driest desert areas and at elevations up to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) .
In Arizona, Nevada, and southern California, Nolina bigelovii is especially prevalent along the Lower Colorado River Valley, especially in the western Arizona Sonoran Desert, but also regions of the mountains of southern California's Colorado Desert. The species ranges in the Peninsular Ranges of Baja California-(the north state), as well as Isla Ángel de la Guarda in the northern Gulf of California. Its northeast range extent is in the Grand Canyon of Arizona.
Nolina beldingii · Britton's beargrass · Peninsular beargrass · Foothill beargrass · Woodland beargrass · Dehesa beargrass · Devil's shoestring · Sacahuista · Blue Beargrass · Parry's beargrass · Texas sacahuista · Beargrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nolina bigelovii 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.
