Hairy Woollygrass
Erioneuron pilosumHairy Woollygrass is a grass native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1 ft tall. It wants full sun and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms brown in Apr–Oct. Deer rarely browse it. Good for butterflies.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Grass
- Sun
- Full sun (6–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- About 1 ft
- Bloom
- Apr–Oct · brown
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
672 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.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.