Sorghastrum nutans
Indian Grass
A vigorous native warm season grass with bluish green foliage turning a translucent yellow-deep gold fall color and bearing beautiful panicles of copper. Excellent for cut flowers.
Sorghastrum nutans
( Sioux Blue Wood Grass )
Perennial grass that slowly spreads and forms loose clumps. Stems are upright with arching, linear, metallic blueish green leaves that turn purple in the fall.
#785 Sorghastrum nutans
Common Names: indiangrass, yellow indiangrass
Family: Poaceae/Gramineae (grass Family)
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Indian Grass
Genus: Sorghastrum
Species: nutans
Parts Used: the blades for forage ...
Sorghastrum nutans Grass, Indian
perennial, average care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 5a thru 8b ...
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Hardiness Zones:
1 ...
Indian Grass
Sorghastrum nutans
3 to 6'
1½ to 3'
Sun; prefers rich, moist, well-drained soil; tolerates most soil.
Sandysoil Indiangrass [English]: Sorghastrum setosum
Sandysoil Suncup [English]: Camissonia strigulosa
Sandywoods Chaffhead [English]: Carphephorus bellidifolius
Sandywoods Sedge [English]: Carex dasycarpa
Sane-Kazura [Japanese]: Uvaria japonica ...
The dominant grass species include big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). These three grasses each develop strikingly beautiful fall colors.
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some suitable native alternatives for Sericea lespedeza include butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa), joe-pye weed (Eupatorium dubium), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida), big blue stem (Andropogon gerardii), or Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans).
 See also: Grass, Sorghastrum nutans, India, Green, Indian Grass
  
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