Muhlenbergia is a perennial grass that grows from 1 to 3 feet or taller with fine-textured green to glaucous blue basal foliage topped by airy inflorescences some of which are pink, purple-red, or purple-gray. Muhlenbergia is commonly called deer grass. Muhlenbergia grows easily in a variety of soil including sandy and gravelly soils. It requires…
Phyllostachys–commonly called bamboo–is an evergreen giant grass grown for its upright culms (hollow stems) and yellow-green or light to dark green, narrowly lance-shaped leaves. Phyllostachys are suitable for containers outdoors, as specimen plants, or in groups along with other shrubs in a border. Phyllostachys are valued for their elegant form and foliage; some are colored…
Bambusa–commonly called bamboo–is a group of giant grasses with hard, woody stems that vary greatly in size and markings. Bambusa is cultivated for its often dense linear-lance-shaped leaves on slender branches; branches are borne on upright culms (hollow stems) that can grow from 10 to 50 feet (3-15m) tall. Bambusa grows and expands in a…
Phalaris, commonly called ribbon grass–is a tough, bamboo-like ornamental grass with broadly linear and flat pale to mid-green leaves. It is commonly planted as a groundcover or at the side of a pond or stream. Phalaris spreads via rhizomes and can be invasive; there are cultivars that are less invasive than the species. Phalaris forms…
Briza–commonly called quaking grass or rattlesnake grass–is a delicate, graceful ornamental grass with linear leaves and loose racemes or panicles of flower spikelets that hang from very fine stalks and as a result quake and flutter in the slightest breeze. The spikelets resemble rattlesnake rattles. Use quaking grasses in mixed plantings, or grow them in rows in…
Molinia, commonly called purple moor grass, is a slow-growing perennial grass that is grown for its whispy see-through quality and its yellowish to purplish flowers that rise above leafy clumps in narrow spikelike clusters. Molinia is often used as a cut flower. Molinia has fine-textured, erect, narrow, light green leaves in neat dense clumps to 2…
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