Height: 2’ to 4’ Spread: 1’ to 3’ Light Needs: sun, part shade Water: dry to average Flower color: brown Bloom time: August to November
This ornamental grass is notable for its colorful flower stalks and silvery white seed tufts in fall. Slender leaves are often purplish, especially in fall. It is a clumping grass but it is likely to produce volunteer seedlings. It is suitable for gardens, pocket prairies and naturalizing. The seeds attract birds and the grass will provide nestingmaterial/structure for birds and native bees. Wood nymph butterflies and various skippers use this plant as a host plant for their caterpillars. Deer tend to leave grasses alone.
This grass was previously known as Andropogon ternarius.
