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Nolina texana
Also called Texas Sacahuiste, Sacahuista, Beargrass, Bunch Grass
Texas sacahuista is a grass-like evergreen perennial in the asparagus family, forming dense tufts of stiff, narrow leaves from a woody base. It is grown in xeriscape and native plant gardens, and it needs full sun to part shade with very sharp drainage.
Nolina texana, the Texas sacahuiste or Texas beargrass, is a plant in the asparagus family that resembles a large clump of grass. It grows in the south central United States and Northern Mexico. They are sometimes grown as a garden plant in xeriscape or native plant gardens.
Texas sacahuiste is the species from genus Nolina most often grown in gardens. It is valued by gardeners for its evergreen foliage and flowers. Plants will grow in full sun or partial shade and are reputed to be resistant to browsing by deer. For cultivation Texas sachuiste is often propagated by separating offsets.
It requires an alkaline soil and good drainage. It is reported as winter hardy in USDA zones 7–11, temperatures as low as −15 °F (−26 °C).
There is some uncertainty about the range of Nolina texana. The very similar species Nolina greenei grows in Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma and it is unknown how many observations of it in those states have been mistaken for Nolina texana. All sources agree that it is native to the US States of Texas and New Mexico. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS database (PLANTS) additionally reports it in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado. POWO disagrees with PLANTS about it growing Arizona while agreeing about its native status in Oklahoma and Colorado. With its wider coverage POWO also reports it as growing in Northern Mexico, with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility specifically reporting records of it in Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, with the most frequent records from the last of these.
Nolina beldingii · Bigelow's nolina · Britton's beargrass · Peninsular beargrass · Foothill beargrass · Woodland beargrass · Dehesa beargrass · Devil's shoestring · Sacahuista · Blue Beargrass · Parry's beargrass · Beargrass
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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.
