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Poa clivicola
Fine-leaved snow grass is a rare, endangered tufted perennial grass native to alpine and sub-alpine grasslands in south-eastern Australia. It needs cool, moist, well-drained conditions, and in cultivation it suits cold-climate native gardens.
Poa clivicola, commonly known as fine-leaved snow grass, is an endangered Australian grass species, restricted to alpine grassy vegetation. Poa from the Greek poa (grass), clivicola- from the Latin clivus (hill) and -cola (dweller).
Endemic to Australia, P. clivicola grows well on better drained grassland slopes in Australia's alpine regions. Occurring from approximately 800m to 2000m altitude. This species is found rarely across, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Australian Capital Territory, in grassy mountainous vegetation. Particularly well growing on basaltic soils and not occurring on siliceous rocks. Can be found in open eucalypt woodland, swampy plain, open grassland, and frost hollows, usually in wet sites.
The genus of Poa comprises important pasture plants, making P. clivicola a good provider of food for native wildlife in alpine grassy vegetation. Poa grasslands also provide important habitat for native fauna species, especially for endangered and endemic butterfly species that feed only on the leaves of Poa grass.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Poa clivicola 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.
