Switch Grass
This smooth, blue tinted grass can grow as tall as 4' and spreads slowly through it's rhizome growth forming clumps. It was selected for its glaucous blue color, and graceful fountain habit.
Switch Grass
Grown for their fine, delicate flowers and seed heads, these ornamental grasses are annuals or perennials. Use erect or creeping plants as screens, accents, or ground cover.
Blue Switch Grass
Description
Panicum virgatum 'Prairie Sky' was discovered by Richard Gettig of Ohio is a Wisconsin meadow.
Switch grass (Panicum virgatum)
Manageable in regions with moderate soil fertility and low rainfall; avoid planting in rich soil where it can run rampant. Named cultivars tend to be less aggressive. Zone 4, with winter protection ...
Blue Switch Grass - Deciduous clumping grass w/ blue-gray upright foliage to 4-5' tall. American prairie native. Airy flowers in summer. Full Sun Hardy to
Parkinsonia aculeata ...
Red Switch Grass [English]: Panicum virgatum 'Rostrahlbusch'
Red Switch Grass [English]: Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah'
Red Switch Grass [English]: Panicum virgatum 'Rotstrahlbusch'
Red Taboo Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Red Taboo' ...
Red switch grass (Panicum violaceum)
Red-barked dogwood (Cornus alba)
Red-hot poker, torch lily (Kniphofia species)
Reed grass, small-reed (Calamagrostis species)
Regal fern, royal fern (Osmunda regalis) ...
There are many cultivars of Switch Grass offering a variety of foliage colors and variations but their care is the same. Switch Grass is a larval host for some butterflies and provides seed for ground feeding birds.
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Tufted Hair Grass ...
SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVE PLANTS: Several native grasses and other plants are available that can be substituted for Burma reed, including Fakahatchee grass (Tripsacum dactyloides), switch grass (Panicum virgatum), ...
Panicum virgatum ( Hanse Herms Switch Grass )
Panicum virgatum ( Heavy Metal Switch Grass )
Panicum virgatum ( Strictum Switch Grass ) ...
Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal'
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Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum): This beautiful native grass has many varieties with showy flowers, excellent fall color and winter interest. Switch grass prefers full sun in moist to wet soil, but is highly adaptable.
Ornamental species such as the fescues (Festuca), fountain grass (Pennisetum), Chinese silver grass (Miscanthus), pampas grass (Cortaderia) and switch grass (Panicum) are just a few noteworthy members.
Switch Grass, Panicum, is an upright plant known for its finely textured flowers and bright red fall color. 'Heavy Metal' and 'Prairie Sky' are popular cultivars.
 See also: Grass, Panicum, Grasses, Green, Pink
  
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