Prairie Dropseed Grass (Sporobolis Heterolepis) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b  Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Ornamental Grass, Perennial, Groundcover

Flower Color:  Pink tinted Cream

Flower Size:  Tiny in airy panicles

Flowering Period:  Late Summer into Fall

Flower Type:  Panicle

Fragrant Flowers: Yes, Coriander-like fragrance

Foliage Color:  Green in Summer turns Gold with Orange hues in Fall and then Light Bronze in the Winter

Fragrant Foliage:  No 

Berries:  NA

Berry Color:  NA

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Birds

Resistances: Air Pollution, Black Walnut, Deer, Disease, Erosion, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbits, Dry Soil, Drought Tolerant

A highly adaptable and easy-to-grow North American native grass that brings elegance to any landscape or garden. Considered by many ornamental grass enthusiasts to be the most handsome of the prairie grasses, Prairie Dropseed forms an 18 inch tall and wide arching foliage mound from which rise panicles of tiny pink-tinted cream flowers that float like a cloud on thin stems up to 36 inches high. The bloom occurs in late summer into fall and the flowers have a unique fragrance reminiscent of coriander. In fall the foliage color turns to attractive hues of goldish orange before fading to light bronze in winter. Prairie Dropseed makes a distinctive border and is outstanding in mass plantings or in pots planters and other containers.

If you’re wondering how this plant got it’s name, tiny rounded mature seeds drop to the ground from their hulls in fall. Plains Indians ground the seed to make a tasty flour.

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