Native Grasses

A native, cool-season perennial grass common in bottomlands, stream valleys, and other moist places. It grows from stout rhizomes and forms loose colonies. It makes a lovely accent planting the proper location, with tall, graceful, flattened seed heads that flutter in the wind.

This perennial grass that has attractive summer foliage and spectacular clouds of pink fall flowers. Tan seed plumes remain attractive in winter.

One of a few plants to occur naturally in southwestern North America and in southern South America with no natural populations in between. A grass with delicate, thread-like leaves and flowers that billow gracefully in even the slightest breeze.

Indian Grass is a warm season native perennial grass which typically occurs in prairies, glades and open woods. It was one of the dominant grasses of the tallgrass prairie which once covered large parts of the Midwest.