Cortaderia — commonly called Pampas grass — is a fast-growing ornamental grass that has a fountain-like form growing in dense tussocks. It can grow to 20 feet (6m) tall, as much as 8 feet in one season. Cortaderia has arching, narrow, and arching saw-toothed leaves. It bears long white to chamois or pink flower plumes in late summer. The…
Chasmanthium — commonly called wild oats, wood oats, or bamboo grass — is an ornamental clump-forming grass. Its broad, bamboo-like leaves are topped by arching flowering stems. The flowers are silvery green spikelets that resemble flattened clusters of oats. Chasmanthium is a good choice for growing in a mixed or herbaceous border or in a woodland garden….
Carex — commonly called Sedge — are grasslike perennials most often grown for their colorful, often variegated foliage. Sedges are different from grasses in that they have solid, triangular stems, and the sheaths of the leaves, which are borne in threes, completely encircle the stems. Carex usually bears flowers in dense heads or spikes arising from the axils…
Calamagrostis — commonly called feather reed grass–is one of the most handsome ornamental grasses. It has linear, flat, or channeled leaves and dense inflorescences borne in branching panicles. The erect, somewhat arching clumps of narrow, bright leaves grow from 1.5 to 4 feet tall. Calamagrostis upright flowering stems remain upright until the first snow or freeze. The…
A number of members of the Grass Family are useful in landscaping and in the herbaceous border because of their distinctively decorative foliage and the pleasingly varied forms and soft colors of their spikes or plume-like flower clusters. Most of the annual forms of ornamental grasses and many of the perennials are also valuable for…
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