Bouteloua curtipendula (Side Oats Grama) Size:0.1 lbs Seed

Bouteloua curtipendula (Side Oats Grama) Size:0.1 lbs SeedBouteloua curtipendula (Side Oats Grama) is one of the best native grasses for native landscaping because of its fine short stature leaves and unique orange flowers (yes I said flowers, very unique color for a grass : ) The seed heads hang to the side looking like feed oats giving this grass its name, side oats. Sun Exposure Prairie Savanna Soil Conditions Mesic Dry Height 2' Flower Color green orange Flower Time August September Frequently Asked

Given time this plant can create dense colonies making a great flowering medium height groundcover

Its purple flowers are just beautiful

It has a traditional oval or pyramidal shape so it can perform as a specimen tree

Height 1-2'

Flower Color White

Pollinators also get a kick out of this early season flower

Photo 2 by: By Kenraiz

Tiny yellowish-white flowers (showy petal-like white bracts are absent) give way to berry-like drupes that change from white to blue as they ripen in late summer

most would confuse it with an herbaceous flower

Monarda punctata (Spotted Bee Balm) is a sandy and dry soil loving cousin of the more common Mondarda fistulosa

The crushed seed head has a fruity or even fruit loops smell

Carex jamesii (Grass Sedge) can do well in deep shade as it develops early in the spring and blooms before the canopy trees have fully developed their leaves