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Botanic Name: Melica californica
Common Name: California Melic
Size: 2'h x 2'w
Sun: Part Shade
H20: summer dry
Deer Resistant
Resistance: high
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Description:
California Melic is a small, delicate grass often found on slopes under oak trees. Dry shade is its favorite home. Slender green foliage is topped with delicate floewrs of a subtle beauty. Goes semidormant through summer and fall, and is one fo the first plants to green back up with the arrival of fall rains. Lovely with Coastal Wood Fern.

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Yerba Buena Nursery
(650) 851-1668

19500 Skyline Blvd.
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Woodside, CA 94062
FAX (650) 851-5565

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