Details
Emerges
May
Seed collection
Flowers
July, August
Yellow
September
Height
15
-
40
cm
Lifecycle
Perennial
Width
30
-
60
cm
Habit
Grasses
Clumping
Ecology
Supports
Songbirds
Butterflies & Moths
Providing
Larval host plant
Seeds
Has fine blue-green blades and distinctive, eyebrow-shaped seed heads that sway with the wind. Growing in dense, low clumps, its foliage turns golden in fall and often curls into ringlets.
Habitat
Typically found in
prairie
In the Garden
Growing Conditions
Moisture
Drought tolerant
Average
Light
Full sun
Part sun
Soil
Average garden soil
Propagation
Via
Rhizomatous
Seeds
Sowing Recommendations
Fall planting
Landscape
Use for:
Winter interest
Naturalization
Growing Tips
This heat-loving native requires warm temperatures of spring in order to aid germination.
Do not over water established plants.
Description
Blue Grama Grass is a hardy, drought-tolerant native bunchgrass known for its fine blue-green blades and distinctive, eyebrow-shaped seed heads that sway with the wind.