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Nolina brittoniana
Also called Britton's Bear Grass
Britton's beargrass is a rare Florida species forming a rosette of long, grass-like leaves from a bulb-like base, with tall flower spikes in spring. It is a federally endangered native that needs sunny, dry, sandy, well-drained ground kept open by fire.
Nolina brittoniana is a rare species of flowering plant in the asparagus family known by the common name Britton's beargrass. It is endemic to Florida, where there are 72 known populations, only a few large enough to be considered viable. It is federally listed as an endangered species of the United States.
The plant is limited to seven counties in Central Florida, where it grows in several habitat types. It is known from various kinds of Florida scrub habitat, hammocks, and sandhills. The habitat types are different in many ways but they all have dry, well-drained, low-nutrient sandy soils and are all maintained by wildfire. The plant is present on Lake Wales Ridge, home to many rare Central Florida endemic plants. It grows alongside Polygala lewtonii, Polygonum dentoceras, Polygonum basiramia, Paronychia chartacea subsp. chartacea, Persea humilis, Liatris ohlingerae, Hypericum cumulicola, Conradina brevifolia, Calamintha ashei, and Bonamia grandiflora. The plant is relatively widespread compared to other rare local plants, but most of the populations are small and some are made up of only female individuals.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nolina brittoniana 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.
