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Location: Wildlife Plant Design
Names:
- Common Name: Little Bluestem
- Botanical Name: Schizachyrium scoparium
- AKA: Popotillo Azul
Description: Little bluestem is a very ornamental bunchgrass with fine-textured foliage that forms very dense mounds 18-24 inches tall. Slender blue-green stems reach 3 feet by September, and become radiant mahogany-red with white, shining seed tufts in the fall. Color remains nearly all winter. Perennial clumps grow up to a foot in diameter.
Landscape Use: Border - Mixed, Deer Resistant
Wildlife Value: Birds, Butterflies