Feather Grass
By Ann MacDonald
Feather Grass (Stipa) - A large group of grasses, the prettiest of which, S.
Mexican Feather Grass
The narrow green blades of this southwestern native form a tidy fountaining clump. In early summer silvery cream-colored flowers open to resemble downy feathers that sway gently with the breeze.
MEXICAN FEATHER GRASS
syn. Stipa tenuissima
Family: Poaceae
GROWING GUIDE ...
African Feather Grass, African Feathergrass, Bedding Grass, Waterside-Reed
Description
Genus Pennisetum ...
( Feather Grass )
This species in the grass family have narrow, grasslike foliage, with leaf veins typically parallel to one another, and the leaf margins are most often smooth.
Mexican Feather Grass
Description
A Texas Native grass from the Trans Pecos area, this grass is sometimes called Texas Needle Grass because of the hair-like leaves.
Stipa gigantea (Giant feather grass, Golden oats)
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
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Giant Feather Grass forms a large, loose clump of greyish-green foliage. Seven foot arching stems of tan flower spikes persist through the summer months. Needs well drained soil
6-9
Giant Reed Grass ...
African feather grass (Pennisetum macrourum) is a large long-lived (i.e. perennial) grass (usually 1-2 m tall) with very elongated, greenish or yellowish-coloured seed-heads.
Mexican feather grass is one of the finest textured of the ornamental grasses. Its hairlike foliage moves with the slightest breeze. Use it in rock gardens and as an accent to plants with a bolder texture.
Feather grass (Stipa gigantea)
Feathertop (Pennisetum villosum, Pennisetum longistylum)
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum)
Fern-leaf yarrow (Achillea filipendula)
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) ...
Silver Feather Grass (Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberfeder')
Silver Feather Maiden Grass (Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberfeder')
Silver Fir (Abies alba)
Silver Jade Plant (Crassula arborescens 'Silver Dollar') ...
Native feather grass (Stipa pennata) is listed as an ornamental in a 1782 nursery catalogue in Dorset, England. Ornamental grasses brought home by plant hunters in the 19th century were used in Victorian gardens to give them an exotic look.
Many feather grasses (Stipa spp.), for example, resent a close cut. Often, plants shorn too closely will not recover. To be safe, unless you have been successful in the past, cut back cool-season grasses to two-thirds of their full size.
Stenotaphrum secundatum (St. Augustine grass, Buffalo Grass)
Stipa gigantea (Giant Feather Grass)
Zea mays (Ornamental Corn)
Zoysia 'Emerald' (Emerald Zoysia)
Zoysia japonica (Korean Lawngrass)
Zoysia matrella (Manila Grass) ...
 See also: Grass, Green, Pink, Grasses, May
  
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