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Eragrostis spectabilis

Purple Love Grass

Eragrostis spectabilis is a warm season, clumping perennial with blue-green blades of loose mounding foliage. During late summer, these grassy tufts grow to be about 1-2' tall, and are topped with a haze of airy, rosy-purple inflorencence. Purple love grass prefers fun sun and dry, sandy, or gravelly soils. Eragrostis spectabilis is a hardy species, tolerant of disturbed sites, salt, and difficult conditions. This is a short-lived perennial, but will readily reseed to maintain its population. Leaves are unpalatable to deer, and birds and other wildlife enjoy the seed.

• Category

  • Native Meadow Grasses

• Characteristics

  • Exposure -Sun
  • 1' - 2'
  • Clumping
  • Summer
  • Fall
  • Summer
  • Fall
  • Green
  • Bees/Pollinators
  • Nesting
  • Songbirds
  • Warm Season Grass
  • Container
  • Dried Flower
  • Drought Tolerant
  • Focal Point
  • Great Foliage
  • Ground Cover
  • Mass Planting
  • Native
  • Rock Garden
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