Grasses, Sedges & Rushes
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Carex rosea Rosy sedge, Stellate sedge PERENNIAL GRASS Z 3-9
Mounds of thinnest of medium green leaves mingled with stems with star shaped seed clusters in May-June
Mounds of thinnest of medium green leaves mingled with stems with star shaped seed clusters in May-June.
Size: 12” x 10”
Care: part shade and shade in moist well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: No. Dakota south to TX & east incl. WI, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Awards: Great Plants for the Great Plains Grass of the Year 2020Collected before 1811.
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Chasmanthium latifolium Northern Sea oats Z 5-9
Graceful, pendulous oat-like spikes
In August – December Northern sea oats bear pendulous panicles of oat-like spikelets, emerging green and turning bronze. They hang on all winter.
Size: 36" x 24"
Care: full sun to part shade in any soil
Native: Eastern U.S., New Jersey to Texas
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesIntroduced by Michaux (1746-1802) extraordinary French plant hunter, who searched much of eastern No. America for plants. Indians ate the seeds for food. Used ornamentally since Victorian times for fresh and dried arrangements.
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Deschampsia caespitosa Hair grass Z 4-9
Airy pink panicles of seed heads
Airy pink panicles like delicate billowing clouds of seed heads top clumps of arching slender leaves in mid summer persisting through winter.
Size: 2-4' x 18"
Care: moist well-drained to moist soil in sun to shade.
Native: Europe, Asia & No. AmericaDeschampsia named for French botanist Deslongchamps (1774-1849). This species found by the mid 1700’s.
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Eragrostis spectabilis Purple Love grass Z. 5-9
Profuse tiny purple panicles in August-September. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
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Profuse tiny purple panicles in August-September. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
Size: 2’ x 18”
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil - (slow to emerge in spring)
Native: Maine west to Minnesota, south to Arizona, Wisconsin nativeEragrostis is Greek meaning “love”, (eros) and grass, agrostis. This species first named by botanist Frederick Pursh in his book Flora Americae Septronalis. (1813)
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Festuca ovina glauca Blue fescue Z 4-8
mound of thin blue gray foliage
Spiky but graceful mound of thin blue gray foliage – early summer short spikes of blue-green flowers
Size: 12" x 10"
Care: sun, moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: temperate areas throughout the worldFestuca is Latin meaning “grass stalk.” American garden cultivation since 1800’s.
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Helictotrichon sempervirens Blue oat grass Z 4-9
rounded mound of thin, steel-blue leaves
June-July spikes rise above a magnificent rounded mound of thin, steel-blue leaves – one of the best.
Size: 4' x 2'
Care: full sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.Named by Dominique Villars (1745-1814). Liberty Hyde Bailey (1933) said that Blue oat grass “scarcely grown as ornamental subjects.”
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Hystrix patula syn. Elymus hystris var. hystris Bottle brush grass Z 5-9
June thru fall bears 6” long spikes looking like bottle brushes
June thru fall bears 6” long spikes looking like bottle brushes.
Size: 2-3’ x 12-18”
Care: sun to part shade in dry to moist well-drained soil - tolerates dry shade
Native: Nova Scotia S to Virginia, W to ND and OK.
Wildlife Value: Birds eat seedsHystrix from the Greek (‘hedgehog’) meaning “with spikes” or “bristly” describing the flowers and patula means “spreading.” Collected before 1794. In 1913 L H Bailey wrote, “sometimes used for lawn decoration and for borders.”
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Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’ Japanese blood grass
Gorgeous erect red foliage
Erect greenish red grass blades turn deep, blood red in August and persist through fall. In northern zones will not flower. In warmer areas it flowers and creates seed where it will be invasive.
Can not ship to : Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georiga, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah & West Virginia
Size: 16-20" x 12"
Care: sun to light shade in moist well-drained soil.
Native: JapanCultivated in Japanese gardens since 1800’s. First described in literature in 1812. Introduced to the US in 1911 near Mobile, AL as packing material in a shipment of plants from Japan.
