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Praire Grasses
Andropogon gerardii -
BIG BLUESTEM
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$1.50
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Also sometimes called Turkey-foot because of the distinctive three-parted seed heads, this is the most prevalent and widely distributed of the prairie grasses. Adaptable to a very wide range of soil types, it can grow from 3-8 feet tall with blue-green leaves and stems which change in the fall to a pretty reddish-copper color and remain standing all winter.
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Praire Grasses
Andropogon scoparius -
LITTLE BLUESTEM
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This is a very handsome grass to about two and a half feet, especially nice for use in the prairie as it won’t overgrow and obscure the prairie flowers. Blue-green in the summer, it turns red in the fall and is long-standing. Gives the feeling of ocean waves in the wind.
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Praire Grasses
Bouteloua curtipendula -
SIDEOATS GRAMMA
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$2.00
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An adaptable, clumping, warm-season grass with fine textured foliage to 1 foot. Its common name derives from the one-sided arrangement of the spikelets along the stem, rather like a banner in the wind. Very good for groundcover or specimen use–the flowers are most interesting in fresh or dried arrangements.
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Bouteloua gracilis -
BLUE GRAMMA
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$1.50
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Also known as Mosquito Grass, the nodding flower-heads have variously been described as looking like mosquito larvae, tiny combs or even dragonfly-like. This, as the above, is another important grass of the original North American shortgrass prairie. With fine textured green-gray, clumping foliage to 1 foot, it is two feet in flower. An excellent drought tolerant ground cover or specimen, the flowers are most attractive in fresh or dried arrangements.
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Praire Grasses
Elymus hystrix -
BOTTLE BRUSH GRASS
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$2.00
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One of the few ornamental grasses that will grow well in shade–it naturally occurs in dry or moist woodland areas in the East and Midwest. The loose upright tufts of 12 inch medium green leaves give rise to 2-3 foot stems with bristly flower heads that resemble bottle brushes–the word hystrix is Greek for hedgehog (porcupine) referring to the resemblance of the seed heads to the quills of a hedgehog. The flower heads persist well into autumn and are good for cutting. HP, zone 4.
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Praire Grasses
Eragrostis trichodes -
SAND LOVE GRASS
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$2
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A lovely native perennial warm season grass of the sand barrens and open sandy woodlands but it will grow well in average soil as long as it is well drained. It is a clump grass with medium green foliage of one to two feet which grows vigorously until the flowers emerge in late July. The flowers are showy, amethyst pink on large nodding panicles that almost obscure the foliage and the billowy seed-heads hold up well into the winter unless brought down by snow or ice. HP to zone 4-5.
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Praire Grasses
Panicum virgatum -
SWITCHGRASS
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With its very large and sparse flower panicles, this is a very graceful grass indeed. It grows up to five feet but does not hide the flowers as you can see right through the inflorescence. Good to use on poor soil and for its resistance to lodging, as a wildflower covert.
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Praire Grasses
Sorghastrum nutans -
INDIANGRASS
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Also known as S. avenaceum and WOOD GRASS this is an important forage grass. The golden brown seedheads make very nice cutting material for fresh or dry arrangements. Growing to about four feet, Indiangrass is quicker to mature than some of the other prairie grasses.
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Sporobolus airoides -
ALKALI SAKATON
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Or Alkali Dropseed, its name will never sell it, but this is a rather beautiful and adaptable cousin of the elegant Prairie Dropseed. Found in sandy alkaline soils, it will grow in heavy clay and is quite drought tolerant. Taller and showier in bloom than the finer textured S. heterolepsis, it is upright-arching to 5 feet and blooms through most the summer. Zone 4.
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Sporobolus heterolepis -
PRAIRIE DROPSEED
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$2.00
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Here is a prairie grass which has a fragrance contained in the seedhead–though there are some who can’t discern it. Regardless of this merit, it is the brilliant green foliage, excellent for accent or even making a border, that is the chief value of this ornamental grass. To my nose, the fragrance is similar to that of the Hyacinthbean.
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