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Andropogon gerardii

Andropogon gerardii

Big Bluestem

Big Bluestem is a clumping, strongly upright growing grass that makes a great tall backdrop in any perennial landscape. It's breathtaking in mass plantings, with its thin foliaged texture and its striking orange to red fall color. Strong rooting a...

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Andropogon gerardii 'Blackhawks'

Andropogon gerardii 'Blackhawks'

Blackhawks Big Bluestem

This striking native selection exhibits outstanding landscape color throughout the year with bright green foliage sporting red accents in the summer. As weather cools, stems and blades turn deep purple to black to stunning landscape effect.

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Andropogon gerardii 'Dancing Wind'

Andropogon gerardii 'Dancing Wind'

Dancing Wind Big Bluestem

A grass that has year-round interest? Dancing Wind is a bluish-green grass but changes to a bright red color in the fall and maintains the hue throughout the winter. Seed heads will provide food sources for birds and small animals.

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Andropogon gerardii 'Holy Smoke'

Andropogon gerardii 'Holy Smoke'

Holy Smoke Big Bluestem

Tall and vigorous this outstanding native grass is easy to grow and offers the bonus of incredible purple and red foliage color as the weather cools in fall and a plethora of seed that native songbirds love. Perfect fo...

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Andropogon gerardii 'Rain Dance'

Andropogon gerardii 'Rain Dance'

Rain Dance Big Bluestem

Tall and majestic, this outstanding native grass is easy to grow and offers the bonus of incredible maroon foliage color as the weather cools in fall and a plethora of seed that native songbirds love. Perfect for massing! Outstanding landscap...

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Andropogon gerardii 'Red October'

Andropogon gerardii 'Red October'

Red October Big Bluestem

'Red October' is a show stopper with year round beauty. The foliage emerges in spring with reddish highlights. In summer the foliage is a lush, deep green. Burgundy red flowers bloom in August while the foliage takes on a purple red hue. The first...

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Andropogon gerardii Karl's Cousin®

Andropogon gerardii Karl's Cousin®

Karl's Cousin® Big Bluestem

This narrow, upright, architecturally pleasing specimen boasts an outstanding blue-green foliage color that changes to purple-blue as the weather cools in fall. Long blooming with showy flower heads for six weeks starting in August. Outstanding la...

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Andropogon t. 'Black Mountain'

Andropogon t. 'Black Mountain'

Black Mountain Bluestem

'Black Mountain' was a selection from Black Mountain, NC. Where it was noticed to have a more refined habit and grew more compact than the species. Stems start as a bluish-green and transition to a rusty red color with silvery-white inflorescences...

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Bouteloua curtipendula

Bouteloua curtipendula

Side Oats Gramma

This native grass has graceful, blue-green foliage. Attractive tiny flowers in bright purple and orange appear on tall spikes in late summer. Its name, Sideoats Grama, comes from the way the oat-like seeds all lean to one side of the stem, despite...

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Bouteloua gracilis

Bouteloua gracilis

Blue grama

Narrow, blue-grey blades grow in a dense habit that turns unique hues or orange and red in the fall. Purpleish-red flowers stretch out from the foliage on arching stems throughout the summer. The interesting flowers attract butterflies and other p...

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Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition'

Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition'

Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass

'Blond Ambition' has a unique, flag-like flower, unlike any other. A profusion of chartreuse blooms appear in mid-summer attracting butterflies. As the flowers mature they take on a blond color, quite nice in floral arrangements. Ground feed...

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Bouteloua gracilis 'Honeycomb'

Bouteloua gracilis 'Honeycomb'

Blue Grama Grass

Easy to grow and quite attractive ornamental grass with flag-like flowers that bloom in July with yellow pollen that hangs down resembling eyelashes. The interesting flowers attract butterflies and other pollinators. Birds enjoy the seed that fall...

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Calamagrostis a. Avalanche

Calamagrostis a. Avalanche

Avalanche Feather Reed Grass

'Avalanche' brings the same narrow, upright form to the garden and the same profuse, pluming flower in early to mid-July as 'Karl Forester', but it also brings something completely new… variegated foliage! That's right, deep green foliage carri...

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Calamagrostis a. Karl Foerster

Calamagrostis a. Karl Foerster

Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass

The only grass to have ever been voted Perennial Plant of the Year. Why? This outstanding selection of Feather Reed Grass stands a slender 4-5_ tall and adds a wonderful vertical element to the garden. One of the first ornamental grasses to flower, i...

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Carex 'Ribbon Falls'

Carex 'Ribbon Falls'

Ribbon Falls Sedge

You'll love the delightful, mounding form of this tough, easy to grow shade lover that features deep green foliage that appears to curl under the plant to produce a unique, pleasing form. Perfect for massing! Deer resistant.  Thrives in ...

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Carex cherokeensis

Carex cherokeensis

Cherokee Sedge

Cherokee Sedge is a great addition to your garden for ground cover or low-maintenance filler! Its green foliage arches in mass clumps and small flowers add depth and attraction in the spring.

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Carex amphibola

Carex amphibola

Creek sedge

This native plant offers a shiny evergreen sedge that forms a gracefull, fountain-like mound.  It is perfect for shadier spots in the garden, woodland gardens or along a path.  It is deer resistant, attracts butterflies, and also has see...

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Carex appalachica

Carex appalachica

Appalachian Sedge

If you are looking for a real texture contrast and a plant that will thrive in partial to full shade, Appalachian Sedge may be the answer. All sedges love shade but many are much stiffer and with wider bladed foliage than appalachica. Its foliage is ...

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Carex eburnea

Carex eburnea

Bristleleaf Sedge

Delicate in appearance, bristleleaf sedge makes a wonderful, low-growing groundcover or lawn alternative. It can grow in sun or shade and is drought tolerant once established. It blooms in spring providing an important early-season food ...

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Carex laxiculmus Bunny Blue™ (Hobb)

Carex laxiculmus Bunny Blue™ (Hobb)

Bunny Blue™ Sedge

Brighten up any shade to semi-shade area with this striking, mounding little grass. 'Bunny Blue' is evergreen, so its tussock metallic-blue foliage is visible year round, plus its foliage is wider than many other Carex adding great texture to an alre...

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Carex morowii Ice Dance

Carex morowii Ice Dance

Ice Dance Variegated Japanese Sedge Grass

At first appearance this grass looks great, but maybe a little too delicate for your landscape situation. Looks can be deceiving because its delicate appearance belies the fact that 'Ice Dance' is a tough, colorful, all-purpose, all exposure grass th...

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Carex morowii Silver Sceptre

Carex morowii Silver Sceptre

Silver Sceptre Sedge

Crisp white variegation sets this Carex apart. Leaves are narrow and have a tight, clumping form with a clean landscape appearance. Nice and bright, overall silvery effect for an otherwise shady location. Great liriope substitute for Northern climate...

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Carex morrowii EverColor® 'Everglow'

Carex morrowii EverColor® 'Everglow'

Everglow Sedge

Texture and color distinguish this selection with flowing blades that form a stunning orange mound when flushing in spring followed by green-tinted orange color in summer. As the weather cools in fall its foliage morphs back to glowing orange ligh...

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