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It also tolerates salt and browsing by deer. It can be used at pond margins and along streams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcologists have used this beautiful grass for prairie restorations, naturalizing an area for nesting birds and mammals, meadow gardens and for screening. Plant this grass along borders, in a cottage garden or use it along a slope for erosion control. Its attractive russet orange fall color make it an interesting accent in the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHost plant for the Common Wood-Nymph caterpillars. Adult butterflies feed on rotting fruit and flower nectar. 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Well-drained soil is preferred as a sandy loam with low fertility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer foliage is a silvery blue-green that turns copper, red, and bronze in the fall. From late summer through fall, fluffy, silver seed heads catch the sun. It looks beautiful in many settings, including meadows, cottage gardens, woodland areas, and when planted en masse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHost plant for the Common Wood-Nymph caterpillars. Adult butterflies feed on rotting fruit and flower nectar. 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Well-drained soil is preferred as a sandy loam with low fertility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer foliage is a silvery blue-green that turns copper, red, and bronze in the fall. From late summer through fall, fluffy, silver seed heads catch the sun. It looks beautiful in many settings, including meadows, cottage gardens, woodland areas, and when planted en masse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHost plant for the Common Wood-Nymph caterpillars. Adult butterflies feed on rotting fruit and flower nectar. 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This medium-tall grass mixes well in plantings with spring wildflowers because it stays short in the spring. Birds love the ripe seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEasily grown in average, dry to medium moisture soils in full sun. Tolerates wide range of soil conditions from well-drained sandy soils to heavy clays. Cut clumps to the ground in late winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHost plant for the Green and Dotted Skipper Butterfly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Roots Native Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Trade Gallon","offer_id":48867072377087,"sku":"BOUCUR-TG","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2-inch","offer_id":48867072409855,"sku":"BOUCUR-32C","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/1432\/4479\/files\/Bouteloua-curtipendula.webp?v=1784739178"},{"product_id":"bouteloua-dactyloides","title":"Bouteloua dactyloides (Buffalo Grass)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuffalograss is a small warm-season ornamental grass in the grass family (Poaceae). It is a stoloniferous grass and is a fast spreader. It forms a dense clump reaching 8 inches tall and 12 inches wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant this grass in the full sun in dry to moist soils with good drainage. It will not tolerate shade or high traffic. The leaves are blue-green to gray-green and curly. This grass can also be mowed to a height of 2\" tall and used as a lawn alternative surviving the heat and drought of southern summers. When this grass goes dormant from mid-fall to mid-spring, it will turn straw-colored, but it will green back up quickly in the spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHost plant for the Green and Dotted Skipper Butterfly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Roots Native Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Trade Gallon","offer_id":48867072442623,"sku":"BOUDAC-TG","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2-inch","offer_id":48867072475391,"sku":"BOUDAC-32C","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/1432\/4479\/files\/Bouteloua-dactyloides.webp?v=1784739180"},{"product_id":"deschampsia-flexuosa","title":"Deschampsia flexuosa (Wavy Hairgrass)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWavy Hairgrass has billowy masses of tiny, bronze-to-purple colored panicles that last and last. Vibrant green, thin leaves grow to about 1.5 feet, with the airy panicles hovering above on thin stems. It is native to dry open woods, slopes, fields, grasslands, and open areas in North America, Europe, and Asia. Wavy Hairgrass is easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in part shade. It prefers moist, organically rich soils but grows well in dry shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut old foliage to the ground in late winter before new shoots appear. This is one of the few ornamental grasses that grows well in moderately shady locations; however, it will not flower well if moved into too much shade. Semi-evergreen foliage may retain some green color in a mild St. Louis winter. In optimum growing conditions, it may self-seed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeschampsia flexuosa is a good plant for naturalizing. It looks dramatic when planted in masses, especially when the wind blows the open panicles. It is a fine choice for restoration or for landscape projects that require a native grass that is also ornamental. 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This grass is found naturally in clay or thin rocky soils, especially in those soils that were formerly burned and prairie-like. They are also found in open woodlands, savannas, dry woodlands, and the mountains around rock outcrops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis perennial is attractive individually but makes a big show when used in a mass planting. Delicate pink flowers mature on long, narrow, wiry leaves in the fall. The grass produces tiny, purplish seeds. Pink muhly grass can reach a height of 4 feet and a width of 3 feet. Give it plenty of sunshine and transplant it into well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA North American native, pink muhly grass sounds is an excellent landscape plant. Long-lived, with little to no insect or disease pests, and highly resistant to deer grazing, this ornamental grass is perfect for the low-maintenance garden. Muhly grass tolerates heat, humidity, drought, and poor soil and is highly salt tolerant. 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This plant is one of the more dominant species of the tallgrass prairie, but it is found all over North America growing along moist roadsides, streambanks, and woodlands. It reaches 3-4 feet and with its flower plumes it can measure up to 7 feet tall. It forms a dense columnar foliage clump that can spread slowly through creeping rhizomes and remains attractive year-round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant it in full sun in moist clay or sandy soils. Partial shade is acceptable but it will not grow as tightly and may flop over. Propagation is by seed and division. Prune in late winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has a bluish cast in the summer and is topped by finely-textured, pink-tinged, branched flower panicles that hover over the foliage like a cloud. After the flowers go to seed leave them on the plant to provide a winter food source for birds and small mammals. The leaves will turn attractive shades of yellow-orange in the fall and then leaves will fade to light brown and persist through the winter. 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This is an amazing native grass that commands attention in the garden and works well in mid-height meadows as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe parent species Panicum virgatum ranges through most of the southern Canadian provinces and the contiguous United States. The species is indigenous to prairies, savannas, glades, rocky bluffs, stream banks, open woods, sand dunes, marsh borders, roadsides, ditches and fields. Michigan Plant Breeder, Dave Mackenzie, developed this grass at Hortech, Inc. in Nunica, MI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanicum virgatum ‘ Dream Catcher®​ Tumbleweed®’ ​ prospers in sunny sites with average to moist soil. Plants tolerate drought, salt and clay, sandy or infertile soils. 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It is highly resistant to browsing by deer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as providing year-round cover for wildlife, little bluestem is a larval host plant to various butterflies and moths making it a great choice for a pollinator garden. The feathery, fine blue-green leaves are attractive in a mass planting in a rain, cottage, coastal, or low water use garden. 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Cassian Schmidt gathered seeds that he collected in Missouri at the Ha Ha Tonka State Park. He brought the seeds to his home in Germany, and he and Piet collaborated in making selections of the species, and Ha Ha Tonka is their amazing result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ha Ha Tonka' has a rigid and upright habit. It is a little bit taller than 'The Blues', another common cultivar of Little Bluestem. 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Tiny rounded mature seeds drop to the ground from their hulls in autumn giving rise to the descriptive common name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrairie dropseed grows in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils and has a reputation for being slow to establish itself in a site as well as slow growing. It prefers full sun and dry, rocky soil, but tolerates a wide range of soils, including heavy clays, as well as deer, drought, and other challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers arch high above the leaves and provide movement as they sway in the wind dispersing their fragrance said to be reminiscent of buttered popcorn or hot wax. It displays a glossy green fine summer color that turns deep orange in late fall and then fades to light copper. Snow does not flatten the plant, so it is visible even in winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune it back in spring to shape. The root system is fibrous and short-rhizomatous. It can be grown from seed but does not freely self-seed in the garden. Because the seeds are difficult to germinate, it is easier to propagate this grass by dividing the dense tufts of leaves. Once it becomes established at a suitable site, Prairie dropseed is long-lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is listed by the Department of Agriculture as endangered in seven eastern states, including North Carolina. Use in the upper tier of a rain garden, mass planted in a meadow, as an accent in a rock garden, or as a lawn alternative. 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