Grass Specifications
- Season: Perennial
- USDA Zones: 5 - 10
- Height: 20 inches
- Width: 18 inches
- Foliage Color: Light green
- Flower Color: Bright rose-red
- Growth Rate: Moderate
- Fall Color: Bronzy
- Soil Requirement: Tolerates poor, dry soils, pH 5.8 - 6.8
- Environment: Full sun
- Moisture Requirements: Average to dry
Planting Directions
- Temperature: 68 - 72F
- Average Germ Time: 2 - 3 weeks
- Light Required: Yes
- Depth: Do not cover seed. Lightly press in to soil
- Sowing Rate: 3 seeds per plant
- Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
- Plant Spacing: 18 inches
- Care & Maintenance: See: Love Grass
Eragrostis Spectabilis (Purple Love Grass) - Native on sandy, disturbed, or infertile soils. Purple Love Grass forms 2 foot tall, spreading clumps of coarse blades which transform in late summer into a fine textured haze of purplish flowers. Short-lived but naturalizing by seed, use Purple Love Grass liberally on bad soil in full sun where it might establish a low maintenance colony.
Blooming Summer-Fall, the purple frothiness of the flowers look their best planted in-mass next to blue foliaged plants or yellow flowered plants for contrast. Great for a natural look, or wildlife garden. Eragrostis provides nesting cover for ground birds and attracts butterflies. The foliage turns a pretty red-bronze in Fall. Grows 18 - 24" tall, spreads slowly by rhizomes and reseeds. Eragrostis spectabilis is native to the East & Midwest United States.
