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Elymus condensatus (syn. Leymus condensatus) is a wild rye grass native to California and northern Mexico. Its common name is giant wildrye. It grows in bunches or clumps, stays green all year, and has a distinctive silver blue foliage. It is drought tolerant, growing in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, southern oak woodland, foothill woodland, and Joshua tree woodlands, rarely in wetlands. It spreads by rhizomes but not rapidly and can be easily contained. It often hybridizes with Leymus triticoides, producing the common hybrid grass Leymus x multiflorus. The cultivar 'Canyon Prince' from the Channel Islands is cultivated as a landscaping grass that is somewhat smaller and more compact than the species.
Grass
3 - 6 ft Tall
2 - 8 ft Wide
Fountain, Weeping
Moderate
Evergreen
None
Brown
Deer resistant, Groundcover, Lawn alternative
Full Sun
Very Low
Max 1x / month once established
Easy
Tolerates cold to 15° F
Fast, Medium, Slow
Tolerant of sand and clay.
Tolerates serpentine soil..
Soil PH: 5.0 - 8.0
Can be pruned back to the ground in summer if it becomes floppy. Remove rhizomes to control spread
Can be propagated from rhizomes cut from the mother plant in Spring. For propagating by seed: No treatment.
7*, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14*, 15*, 16*, 17*, 18*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 22*, 23*, 24*
Near the coast, in dry slopes, open places as a component of coastal sage scrub or chaparral. In inland valleys and foothill areas it is associated with oak woodlands. It is also found in some high desert areas with Joshua tree woodland
Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Joshua Tree Woodland, Southern Oak Woodland
California Encelia, California Sagebrush (Artemisia californica), Coyotebrush, Oaks, Salvia spp., Eriogonum spp.
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Apamea cuculliformis
Benjaminiola colorada
Ctenucha brunnea
Mammifrontia rileyi
Nectarines
Prunus persica
Peaches
Prunus persica
Carrots
Daucus carota