Cut to the ground in late winter to early spring.Drought tolerant, it requires very little care and is virtually pest and disease free.Great for erosion control on banks and slopes. Excellent choice for drought-prone gardens, this architectural grass is perfect for beds and borders where it will easily combine with other plants, rock gardens, prairie plantings, city or cottage gardens.It does not persist in highly fertile soils or in moist conditions. This plant is not fussy about soils and tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, including poor soils and clay.
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Performs best in full sun in average, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils.It is an attractive addition to the landscape and can be used as an accent in borders, or in drifts in natural settings where it will mix happily with prairie wildflowers. Providing a very long season of interest, Little Bluestem is easy to grow, tolerates heat, drought and humidity. Their white, shining, cotton-tufted seedheads are of great value to small birds in winter. At first inconspicuous, they become particularly attractive after they dry and turn silvery reddish-brown. long racemes (7 cm) on branched stems rising above the foliage. In late summer, delicate inflorescences appear in 3 in. The foliage of this North American prairie native turns striking copper-orange to dark orange-red in the fall and winter, persisting through winter snows. It is protected by patent number PP26283.Noted for its striking reddish-tan foliage, Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem) is a densely-tufted, deciduous, perennial grass forming an upright clump of fine-textured, slender, arching, blue-green leaves. This cultivar was discovered as a seedling of Andropogon gerardii 'Indian Warrior' and introduced by Intrensic Perennial Gardens, Inc.
Leaves emerge deep green with red highlights in spring, remain green through much of the summer, change to purplish-red to purple by late summer and finally turn a vivid scarlet red after first fall frost. An excellent garden performer with a clumping form and upright habit. 'Red October' is primarily distinguished from the species by its slightly shorter height, deeper green summer foliage and brilliant scarlet red fall color. Specific epithet honors Louis Gerard (1733-1819), French physician and botanist. Genus name comes from the Greek words aner or andros meaning man and pogon meaning beard in reference to the hairs on the spikelets of some species in the genus.
Flowering stems bring total height of this grass to 4-8' tall (typically at the taller end in moist soils and the shorter end in dry soils). Flowering stems rise in late summer above the foliage clump bearing purplish 3-parted, finger-like flower clusters (to 4" long) purportedly resembling turkey feet (hence the additional common name of turkeyfoot grass for this species).
It features an upright clump of stems with flattened leaves (to 2' long and 3/8" wide) which emerge gray to blue green in spring, mature to green with red tinges in summer and turn reddish bronze with lavender tones in autumn after frost. It may be grown as an ornamental grass because of its attractive foliage which changes color seasonally, its good architectural height and its interesting flower/seed heads. The lower stems and leaves often lay flat just above the ground turning upright at a node. Andropogon gerardii, commonly called big bluestem grass, is a tall, Missouri native, perennial, warm season grass that was the dominant grass of the tallgrass prairie which once covered large parts of the Midwest. KR bluestem is a warm-season, deep-rooted bunchgrass that is adapted to most soil types in Texas.
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