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Pappostipa speciosa
Also called Desert Needle Grass
Desert needlegrass is a short, tufted perennial bunchgrass native to dry sagebrush country in the southwestern US, northwestern Mexico, and South America. It grows well in full sun and poor, well-drained soil, and it is best sown or planted in dry, open ground rather than watered like a lawn.
Pappostipa speciosa (synonyms Stipa speciosa and Achnatherum speciosum) is a species of grass known by the common name desert needlegrass. It is native to much of the south-western United States from California and Oregon to Colorado and to northwestern Mexico, where it grows in dry areas, especially sagebrush habitat. It is also native to Argentina and Chile in South America.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pappostipa speciosa 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.
