Texas Bristlegrass
Setaria texananative · Central Texas
Texas Bristlegrass is a grass native to Central Texas. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles clay soil. Blooms green and brown in Jan–Dec.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Grass
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Bloom
- Jan–Dec · green, brown
- Soil
- Takes clay
Where it grows
2 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.