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Poaceae
Mountain melick
Melica nutans
Also known as Mountain melic grass, Melica nutans, Wood melick, Melica nutans f. fissurae
Zones 5–9Sun Partial ShadeWater ModerateCare Low
Native Plants · Ornamental Grass · Shade Grass · Woodland · Melica · Clump-Forming · Perennial Grass · Naturalistic · Low Maintenance · European Native
Pet-safeBeginner-friendlyAttracts pollinators
In stock at 1 nurseryStock updated 9/6/2026
Mountain melick is an elegant, clump-forming ornamental grass suited to shaded woodland gardens and naturalistic plantings, where it produces graceful nodding spikelets in late spring and early summer. It prefers moist, humus-rich soil under part to full shade and requires very little maintenance beyond cutting back old foliage in early spring. A superb choice for underplanting trees or filling shaded borders with soft textural interest.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 3 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately to keep soil evenly moist; avoid waterlogging · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
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Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China Southeast, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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