Index / Search / Deschampsia flexuosa
§1 Plant
Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin.
vernacular wavy hairgrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Deschampsia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 294 counties across 24 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 80 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–6.8
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 2.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 668,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 294 counties across 24 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Alger 26003
- Allegan 26005
- Alpena 26007
- Arenac 26011
- Baraga 26013
- Bay 26017
- Benzie 26019
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Crawford 26039
- Emmet 26047
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Houghton 26061
- Huron 26063
- Iosco 26069
- Keweenaw 26083
- Lake 26085
- Leelanau 26089
- Luce 26095
- Mackinac 26097
- Marquette 26103
- Mason 26105
- Mecosta 26107
- Muskegon 26121
- Oceana 26127
- Ogemaw 26129
- Ontonagon 26131
- Oscoda 26135
- Presque Isle 26141
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Wayne 26163
- Wexford 26165
Minnesota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Fulton 36035
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schoharie 36095
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Columbia 42037
- Dauphin 42043
- Elk 42047
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Snyder 42109
- Sullivan 42113
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Halifax 51083
- Highland 51091
- King George 51099
- Lee 51105
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Surry 51181
- Warren 51187
- Westmoreland 51193
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DEFL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4149465 ↗Record version
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