Common Name:
Feather reed grass
Plant Type:
Grass
Family:
Poaceae (The Grass Family)
Geographic Origin:
Central and Eastern Europe
California Native?:
No

Plant Size:
3-4 feet high and wide
Landscape/Garden Uses:
Mixed plantings
Flowering Season:
Spring

Flower Color:
Straw Color
Exposure:
Sun or light shade
Soils:
Well-drained soil

Suggested Irrigation:
Moderate watering
Estimated Hardiness:
Hardy to 0 degrees F. or less

A beautiful tall grass, making sizeable clumps. Both stems and leaves stand nearly erect, to a total height of 3-4 feet, though they are limber and graceful. The leaf blades are 12 inches or more long, strongly tinged with deep red in fall and winter, except in the mildest climates. Slender wands rise another 2 feet above the foliage in late spring and early summer, bearing narrow plumes of pale pink flowering heads.