Coast Range Melic
Melica imperfecta
Coast Range melic is a delicate California bunchgrass of dry, shaded slopes and chaparral edges, with airy one-sided seed sprays. A graceful native for dry shade. Like other grasses, the seed has documented use as a ground-flour grain.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3.2–3.2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- CA