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Cultivar of Prairie Dropseed with a shorter, upright, tight and uniform shape. Rust-red fall color.
Introduced by famous nursery man and designer Roy Diblik from Northwind nursery, Wisconsin.
1' tall and wide (2' with flowers), grows in more upright vase-shape and then opens up some with the flowers.
This is a warm season grass, so the majority of its growth happens in the warmer part of the season. Fragrant flowers from mid summer till frosts. If planted in masses, the fragrance is noticeable even from a distance.
Best in full sun and average to dry soil. Is bit slow to establish, slower than the species, but is pretty long-lived, and will thrive in poor, dry, gravelly, or shallow soil, and it can be useful for controlling soil erosion.
Excellent for urban landscaping - it will tolerate extreme temperatures and disturbed urban soils in traffic islands, big city containers, or on green roofs, but looks perfect in any planting.
Hardy in zones 3 to 9.
The species is native to central USA, upper Midwest and bigger part of Canada, see the USDA distribution map.
Drought and black walnut tolerant.
It will attract grasshoppers and leafhoppers. The seeds are eaten by songbirds from late summer into winter (Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, and Slate-Colored Junco). Provides nesting material for native bees (Xerxes).
Pairs well with Asclepias tuberosa, Aster (A. oblongifolius, Aster laevis, Aster novi-angliae), Baptisia, Coreopsis, Echinacea, Penstemon, Sedum telephium, Schizachyrium scoparium and many other perennials.
'Tara' can be seen, for example, in Lurie Garden in Chicago or other public gardens and botanic gardens.
Pot Size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
Pictures copyright : US Perennial nursery
Cultivar of Prairie Dropseed with a shorter, upright, tight and uniform shape. Rust-red fall color.
Introduced by famous nursery man and designer Roy Diblik from Northwind nursery, Wisconsin.
1' tall and wide (2' with flowers), grows in more upright vase-shape and then opens up some with the flowers.
This is a warm season grass, so the majority of its growth happens in the warmer part of the season. Fragrant flowers from mid summer till frosts. If planted in masses, the fragrance is noticeable even from a distance.
Best in full sun and average to dry soil. Is bit slow to establish, slower than the species, but is pretty long-lived, and will thrive in poor, dry, gravelly, or shallow soil, and it can be useful for controlling soil erosion.
Excellent for urban landscaping - it will tolerate extreme temperatures and disturbed urban soils in traffic islands, big city containers, or on green roofs, but looks perfect in any planting.
Hardy in zones 3 to 9.
The species is native to central USA, upper Midwest and bigger part of Canada, see the USDA distribution map.
Drought and black walnut tolerant.
It will attract grasshoppers and leafhoppers. The seeds are eaten by songbirds from late summer into winter (Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, and Slate-Colored Junco). Provides nesting material for native bees (Xerxes).
Pairs well with Asclepias tuberosa, Aster (A. oblongifolius, Aster laevis, Aster novi-angliae), Baptisia, Coreopsis, Echinacea, Penstemon, Sedum telephium, Schizachyrium scoparium and many other perennials.
'Tara' can be seen, for example, in Lurie Garden in Chicago or other public gardens and botanic gardens.
Pot Size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
Pictures copyright : US Perennial nursery
Grass plants were petite but well-packed on arrival. Planted early May in sub-par heavy clay soil with full-sun (many 100-degree days) and watered only once weekly. Now mid-August, all 20 plants survived and have easily quadrupled in size, blooming just as in the picture. Best part: Deer and rabbits have not touched them, even while ravaging all of our other "resistant" plants in an area with extreme deer pressure.
