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Orcuttia pilosa
Hairy Orcutt grass is a rare, small annual bunchgrass found only in vernal pools of California's Central Valley. It is federally listed as endangered and is not grown as a garden plant.
Orcuttia pilosa is a rare species of grass known by the common name Hairy Orcutt grass.
It is endemic to the Central Valley of California, where it grows only in vernal pools, a rare and declining type of habitat. Many known occurrences of the plant have been extirpated as land in the heavily agricultural Central Valley has been altered, and it was federally listed as an endangered species in 1997. In that year there were 25 known remaining populations of the grass, only 12 of which were considered stable.
California Orcutt grass · San Joaquin Valley Orcutt grass · Slender Orcutt grass · Sacramento Orcutt grass · Orcutt grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Orcuttia pilosa 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.
