Great Grasses for Every Garden
Great Grasses for Every Garden
With so many grasses to choose from, it can be a challenge to decide which to grow. Here is a quick-reference list to help you spot the grasses best adapted to your conditions.
Grasses for Shady Sites
Carex spp.
(sedges)
Chasmanthiumlatifolium (northern sea oats)
Deschampsia caespitosa (tufted hairgrass)
Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' (golden variegated hakone grass)
Hystrix pastula (bottlebrush grass)
Luzula nivea (snowy wood rush)
Phalaris arundinacea var. picta (white-striped ribbon grass)
Grasses for Dry Sites
Bouteloua curtipendula
(side oats gramma)
Erianthus ravennae (ravvena grass)
Helictotrichon sempervirens (blue oat grass)
Koeleria glauce (large blue hairgrass)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
Sorghastrum nutans (Indian grass)
Sporobolus heterolepis (prairie dropseed)
Grasses for Moist Sites
Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum
(bulbous oat grass)
Arundo donax (giant reed)
Briza media (quaking grass)
Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Stricta' (feather reed grass)
Carex elata 'Bowles Golden' ('Bowles Golden' sedge)
Miscanthus sinensis (Japanese silver grass)
Panicum virgatum (switch grass)
Phalaris arundinacea var. picta (white-striped ribbon grass)
Spartina pectinata (prairie cord grass)
