Schizachyrium scoparium - (Little Bluestem)
GARDEN SITE: Full Sun. Dry to Medium, Well-Drained Soil. Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions
SIZE: 2-4 ft. Spread: 1½- 2ft.
FLOWERS: Small, bronze-purple, August-October
LARVAL HOST TO: Many skippers: Dusted, Cobweb, Ottoe, Indiam, Swarthy, and the Crossline Skippers.
ZONE: 3-9
An attractive ornamental grass grouped or massed in different settings like for borders, rain gardens and meadows or prairie-like settings. Low maintenance plant. Deer, Drought, Erosion, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil, Black Walnut and Air Pollution Tolerant.
About: Little Bluestem is a perennial ornamental grass with clumps of narrow, flat green leaves that turn a bronze color in fall. It gets its name from a slight blue tinge to the bottom of the leaves. Around August, it will produce shoots with purplish blooms and into the fall these will turn into white tufts of seed heads that can persist into February.
Photo by Montrealais/wikipedia commons
GARDEN SITE: Full Sun. Dry to Medium, Well-Drained Soil. Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions
SIZE: 2-4 ft. Spread: 1½- 2ft.
FLOWERS: Small, bronze-purple, August-October
LARVAL HOST TO: Many skippers: Dusted, Cobweb, Ottoe, Indiam, Swarthy, and the Crossline Skippers.
ZONE: 3-9
An attractive ornamental grass grouped or massed in different settings like for borders, rain gardens and meadows or prairie-like settings. Low maintenance plant. Deer, Drought, Erosion, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil, Black Walnut and Air Pollution Tolerant.
About: Little Bluestem is a perennial ornamental grass with clumps of narrow, flat green leaves that turn a bronze color in fall. It gets its name from a slight blue tinge to the bottom of the leaves. Around August, it will produce shoots with purplish blooms and into the fall these will turn into white tufts of seed heads that can persist into February.
Photo by Montrealais/wikipedia commons
GARDEN SITE: Full Sun. Dry to Medium, Well-Drained Soil. Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions
SIZE: 2-4 ft. Spread: 1½- 2ft.
FLOWERS: Small, bronze-purple, August-October
LARVAL HOST TO: Many skippers: Dusted, Cobweb, Ottoe, Indiam, Swarthy, and the Crossline Skippers.
ZONE: 3-9
An attractive ornamental grass grouped or massed in different settings like for borders, rain gardens and meadows or prairie-like settings. Low maintenance plant. Deer, Drought, Erosion, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil, Black Walnut and Air Pollution Tolerant.
About: Little Bluestem is a perennial ornamental grass with clumps of narrow, flat green leaves that turn a bronze color in fall. It gets its name from a slight blue tinge to the bottom of the leaves. Around August, it will produce shoots with purplish blooms and into the fall these will turn into white tufts of seed heads that can persist into February.
Photo by Montrealais/wikipedia commons
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