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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.