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Bouteloua gracilis - BLUE GRAMA
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BOU-GRA-X
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Nice short grass with ornamental seedheads reminding "little hair comb".
Other common name is moisquito grass (mosquito larvae-like seed spikes which hang from only one side of its flowering stems).
This is native grass to bigger part of USA (Southern and western United States, Mexico), see the USDA distribution map.
Hardy in zones 3 to 10.
It is typical and dominant grass in short grass prairies, and can be found in prairies, plains, open rocky woodlands or along the railroads.
Usually forms smaller clumps of gray-green leaves, about 1'-1.5' tall and wide (sometimes with flowers up to 2').
Purplish-tinged flowers appear in early to mid summer, yellow-brown fall color (sometimes with reddish-orange hue).
Full sun, medium moist to dry soil - it is adaptable to virtually any soil, that is not wet. Including poor, shallow or rocky soils.
Drought, heat and humidity, polluted air and black walnut tolerant.
Low maintenance grass that will freely self-seed in gaps.
Host plant for larvae of Leonard's Skipper and Ottoe's Skipper, large number of grasshoppers feed on the foliage too. Attracts small birds. It is natural food source of rabbits, deer and bison on the Big Plains, so may be browsed elsewhere too.
Best in smaller groups, rock garden, naturalistic gardens, prairie gardens, dry meadows or slopes and erosion control.
It's fine and delicate structure looks very good bigger flowers of structure - combine with Achillea, Agastache, Asclepias tuberosa, Amsonia (shorter cultivars like 'Blue Ice', Amsonia 'Storm Cloud', shorter Asters, shorter cultivars of Baptisia, Callirhoe, Coreopsis, Echinacea (tenneesseensis, pallida, 'Pixie Meadowbrite' or shorter hybrids of Echinacea purpurea), Iris x germanica ('Nana' or ' Intermediate' bearded Iris), Gaillardia, Geranium sanquineium, Rudbeckia missouriensis, Sedum telephium, Stachys byzantina,...and many other perennials
Picture copyright : KENPEI, Commons Wikipedia
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
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Bouteloua gracilis - BLUE GRAMA
$7.99
Nice short grass with ornamental seedheads reminding "little hair comb".
Other common name is moisquito grass (mosquito larvae-like seed spikes which hang from only one side of its flowering stems).
This is native grass to bigger part of USA (Southern and western United States, Mexico), see the USDA distribution map.
Hardy in zones 3 to 10.
It is typical and dominant grass in short grass prairies, and can be found in prairies, plains, open rocky woodlands or along the railroads.
Usually forms smaller clumps of gray-green leaves, about 1'-1.5' tall and wide (sometimes with flowers up to 2').
Purplish-tinged flowers appear in early to mid summer, yellow-brown fall color (sometimes with reddish-orange hue).
Full sun, medium moist to dry soil - it is adaptable to virtually any soil, that is not wet. Including poor, shallow or rocky soils.
Drought, heat and humidity, polluted air and black walnut tolerant.
Low maintenance grass that will freely self-seed in gaps.
Host plant for larvae of Leonard's Skipper and Ottoe's Skipper, large number of grasshoppers feed on the foliage too. Attracts small birds. It is natural food source of rabbits, deer and bison on the Big Plains, so may be browsed elsewhere too.
Best in smaller groups, rock garden, naturalistic gardens, prairie gardens, dry meadows or slopes and erosion control.
It's fine and delicate structure looks very good bigger flowers of structure - combine with Achillea, Agastache, Asclepias tuberosa, Amsonia (shorter cultivars like 'Blue Ice', Amsonia 'Storm Cloud', shorter Asters, shorter cultivars of Baptisia, Callirhoe, Coreopsis, Echinacea (tenneesseensis, pallida, 'Pixie Meadowbrite' or shorter hybrids of Echinacea purpurea), Iris x germanica ('Nana' or ' Intermediate' bearded Iris), Gaillardia, Geranium sanquineium, Rudbeckia missouriensis, Sedum telephium, Stachys byzantina,...and many other perennials
Picture copyright : KENPEI, Commons Wikipedia
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
