Outsidepride.com has a large selection of beautiful ornamental grasses which can provide the focal point of any landscape and as landscape designs become less formal, ornamental grasses are beginning to appear in traditional perennial beds, shrub borders and naturalistic or wildlife areas.
Blue Fescue
Blue fescues look beautiful in a traditional ornamental setting or mixed with wildflowers, but with the availability of seed they can be used in many other areas where low maintenance turf is desired.
Blue Hair
Blue Hair Grass (Koeleria Glauca) - Both the foliage and flowers of Blue Hair Grass are attractive and enhancing. This ornamental grass will only grow to 12" tall, producing dense tufts of blue leaves. Blue Hair grass is a well-behaved and non-spreading species that is suitable for sunny borders.
Brome - Mediterranean
Mediterranean Brome (Bromus Macrostachys) - This variety of brome is often used for a bedding plant. It has attractive flowers and is often used for drying. Its wooly panicles make for a very full display of ornamental grasses. Plant brome from its ornamental grass seeds.
Cloud Grass
Cloud Grass (Agrostis Nebulosa) - This upright, annual grass is native to Spain and Portugal. It seeds heads give it an airy look that is popular among home gardeners and florists. This little ornamental grass flowers throughout summer.
Corynephorus
Corynephorus Canescens (Spiky Blue) - Attractive nest tufts of grey-green fine foliage form this low growing ornamental grass. Very uniform and compact ornamental, colored grass, quickly becoming established in borders or containers. Ideal for adding different colors and textures to your garden.
Edraianthus Grass Bells
Edraianthus Tenuifolius (Grassy Bells) - This ornamental grass has tufts of narrow grass-like leaves with upward facing purple flower clusters in early summer. Grows best in sun to part shade, well-drained soil. Though it looks like not much more than a little green tuft, this rock garden perennial has a surprise in store!
Eleusine Coracana
Eleusine Coracana (Green Cat) - An attractive ornamental grass producing many green, 'claw' like flowers on sturdy stems throughout summer. A great border plant, and a spectacular cut flower. One of the few ornamental grasses which can also be dried.
Hordeum Jubatum
Foxtail Barley (Hordeum Jubatum) - This native perennial grass is about 20 inches tall and usually tufted at the base, otherwise it is unbranched. Alternate leaves are produced sparingly along each culm. The leaf blades are up to 4 inches long and about 1/4 inch across. Leave blades of this ornamental grass are light green to pale bluish green, hairless, and erect to slightly spreading.
Isolepsis Cernua
Isolepsis Cernua (Live Wire) - This unique ornamental grass like plant is ideal for adding texture to mixed containers or as an indoor gift plant. The short, billowing mound of soft green leaves is accented by flower spikes that look like “fiber optic” strands.
Lagurus Ovatus
Lagurus Ovatus (Bunny Tails) - This is one of those ornamental grasses that you grow first on a whim, then as an integral part of your garden!
Lamarckia Aurea
Lamarckia Aurea (Lamarckia Aurea Golden Shower) - Lamarckia is a distinctive ornamental grass with short dense golden panicles, flushed purple when mature. This ornamental grass is useful for cutting or drying its panicles. It is one of the few low growing ornamental grasses on the market only reaching approximately 12 inches in height. Lamarckia Aurea is an easy ornamental grass to grow from seed so give it a try!
Lemon Grass
Cymbopogon Flexuosus (Lemon Grass) - An essential herb for Asian cuisine, the leaves and stems of Lemon Grass can be used fresh or dried to impart a distinct lemon flavor. Lemon Grass adds exquisite flavor to soup, curries, and sauces, as well as fish and chicken dishes.
Muhly Grass
Pink Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia Capillaris) - Muhly grass, with Latin name Muhlenbergia capillaries, is a type of ornamental grass that grows natively in various areas across the United States. It is one of the top choices when choosing ornamental grasses for landscaping due to its beautiful pink blooms, which are billowing and delicate.
Panic Grass
Panic Grass (Panicum Violaceum) - A very attractive ornamental grass with purplish-green, pendulous flower-heads. Very useful for the flower arranger. Panic grass is also characterized by archiving violet bronze panicles, fine green leaves and attractive tufts. Plant t his ornamental grass in flower beds and borders and its seed is used for bird food for parakeets. It makes an ideal cut flower filler or dried flower and grows to 30 inches tall.
Polypogon
Rabbits Foot Grass (Polypogon Monspeliensis) - Polypogon monspeliensis, often called Rabbit Foot Grass, Annual Beardgrass, as well as a few other names, is a winter or summer annual grass that can form dense stands in areas that are moist to wet where other grasses will not grow. Rabbitsfoot grass is a grass that grows naturaly in grazed rangeland.
Quaking Grass
Quaking Grass (Briza Maxima) - Quaking ornamental grass is cultivated for its rattlesnake like seed heads which look like small heart shaped flowers. The flower heads change in color from green to buff and are collectable for dried arrangements.
Ruby Grass
Ruby Grass (Melinis Nerviglume) - A spectacular ornamental grass derived from South African species, Ruby grass is a cold tender, Zone 7-11, perennial that is grown as an annual in much of the intermountain West.
Subcategories
- • Carex
- • Juncus
- • Love Grass
- • Luzula
- • Melica
- • Miscanthus
- • Pampas
- • Pennisetum
- • Plume
- • Setaria
- • Stipa
- • Uncinia
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Pennisetum - Alopecuroides - This beautiful variety of fountain grass, often called black-flowered fountain grass, has fuzzy flower spikes that are a smoky purple-black in color. This ornamental grass emerges in late summer and contrasts nicely with the fine, deep green foliage. Pennisetum makes a great accent in a sunny flower border, or you can plant in drifts for a massed effect.
Blue Fescue - One of the most popular short growing ornamental grasses easily planted from seed. Blue fescue is well adapted to a mown turf situation, with the blue/green color developing in high stress periods. It can be used for home lawns, golf course roughs, roadsides, cemeteries, and commercial sites. The distinctive color allows it to add landscaping detail and interest.
Bluestems - Big and little bluestem are native grases often grown in the Great Plains region, but also make great container or flower bed ornamental grasses. Big bluestem is a warm season perennial grass which has an attractive reddish-copper color in fall and can help create a beautiful landscape. Little bluestem is one of the most popular ornamental grasses on the market today and is widely used in landscaping. Often used in plantings because it is short and mixes well with wildflowers for increased attraction.
Feathertop - Feathertop is a clump-forming, densely tufted type of ornamental fountaingrass. Feathertop produces 2 foot nodding silver panicles in great profusion from late summer through early fall. The flowers look like clouds that are floating about, catching the breeze and waving about. Feathertop is a ready self-seeder, so plant in an area where they can spread, or you will need to cut off the flowers before the seeds ripen in the fall.
Fountain - Fountain grass has densely-tufted clumps bow beneath the weight of these long blooms, forming a lovely cascade of ornamenal grass! Adding rich rosy-pink color to the summer landscape, Fountain Grass is a treasure in the hot, dry garden. Its 12-inch plumes have a fuzzy, soft consistency, seeming to float above spinach-green stalks 2 feet tall. Perfect as a specimen or accent planting, this ornamental fountain grass forms a very dense, rounded clump 18 inches wide.
Mexican Feathergrass - Mexican Feather Grass is a beautiful mounded ornamental grass. Its needle-like flexible leaves form dense, bright green clumps. The flowers are silky awns that appear in June and change from green to gold as they mature. Spectacular when backlit at night, they are striking alone, or in large masses or drifts.
Miscanthus - One of the easiest and most adaptable Fountain Grasses, Miscanthus Sinensis Grass (Eulalia), an Oriental hybrid, sports long, silky tresses of shining silvery-cream all summer long. In autumn, the cold weather turns them deep gold, for a long-lasting colorful display in the landscape or the vase. Reaching 6 to 7 feet tall and spreading 3 feet wide in the sunny garden, this perennial is useful as a screen, hedge, or specimen planting.
Pampas - White and pink pampas are two of the most poular ornamental grasses there are. Unsurpassed for glorious texture and color in the landscape, thie pampas grasses are the star of any garden it graces! The sturdy, fresh-green bloomstalks reach anywhere from 8 to 12 feet tall, capped by enormous "featherdusters" of brilliant rosy-pink. In selecting sites for pampas grass, regard should be paid to the danger of damage to passersby from contact with the very sharp edges of the leaves.
Ruby - This is a spectacular plant derived from South African species. Ruby Grass (Pink Crystals - Rhynchelytrum Nerviglume) is a cold tender, Zone 7-10 perennial that is grown as an annual in much of the intermountain West. For best effect, plant in clusters or around the base of taller, late-blooming perennials. Grows 3 - 4 feet tall.
Weeping Lovegrass - Weeping lovegrass is a rapidly growing warm-season bunchgrass that was introduced into the U. S. from East Africa. The many long, narrow leaves emerging from a tight tuft are pendulous, with the tips almost touching the ground. The drooping leaf characteristic gives rise to the name “weeping” lovegrass. Features dark green, fine textured, almost hair-like foliage that forms dense clumps. One of the few ornamental grasses that may also be considered a native grass.
