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Creek Rat Tailed Grass

Urochondra

Creek Rat Tailed Grass
Photo: Malaika Mathew Chawla, CC BY 4.0

Urochondra is a genus of grasses with a single known species, Urochondra setulosa, found in coastal dunes, salt marshes and estuaries of northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia. It is a wild, salt-tolerant grass rarely grown as a garden plant, so care advice is limited.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep soil moist, as it naturally grows in wet estuary and salt marsh margins.
Soil
Sandy or saline coastal soils.
Temperature
Warm tropical to subtropical conditions; frost-sensitive.
How easy
Hard

About

Urochondra is a genus of plants in the grass family. The only known species is Urochondra setulosa, native to northeastern Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Socotra) and southwestern Asia (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, northwestern India, and Sindh Province in Pakistan). The species grows in coastal sand dunes, salt marshes and estuaries.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Urochondra 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.

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