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Plant profile · Austin & Hill Country

Fowl Mannagrass

Glyceria striata
native · Central Texas

Fowl Mannagrass is a grass native to Central Texas that grows 4.5 ft tall. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water. Blooms green in early summer.

Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.

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The facts

5 sources
Type
Grass
Sun
Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
Water
Medium
Height
About 4.5 ft
Bloom
Early Summer · green
Foliage
Deciduous or dies back in winter

Where it grows

13 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).

Can you buy it?

Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.