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 NATIVE
GRASSES FOR SHADE TO PART-SHADE: |
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| Blue
Wood Sedge |
Carex
glaucodea |
Luxuriant,
pleated, wide blades with a blue tint to them. Must grow in shade and
moist, well- drained soil; bunch form. Makes wheatlike heads to 15 inches
in spring, fills faster than liriope, cool-season, hardy to Zone 6. |
Photograph
available soon. |
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| Canada
Wildrye |
Elymus
canadensis var. canadensis |
A cool-season bunchgrass, with delicate, wheatlike heads produced to 3.5
feet in early summer. Ages to tan, stays upright for months thereafter.
Two forms: "Upright" is stiffly upright and tolerates deep shade to full
sun. "Weeping" heads bowed over, delicately moving in wind, best in full
sun. Hardy to Zone 4, well-drained soils, occasional watering OK. |
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| Inland
Seaoats |
Chasmanthium
latifolium |
A
warm-season bunchgrass from 1" rhizomes with lax, tropical foliage topped
by hanging bangles. Must grow in shade or becomes burned, bleached. To
3 feet tall, hardy to zone 4, becomes sandy in winter. Occasional irrigation
OK. |
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| Variable
Dichanthelium |
Dichanthelium
commutatum |
An unusual, cool-season, bunchgrass tolerant of full shade to part-sun,
a groundcover. Height to 1 foot, branching sideways and producing seedheads
throughout the warm season, prolific seeder but no rooting on stems. Remove
old foliage in fall to reveal winter rosette, an evergreen. Hardy to zone
7, maybe 6, needs irrigation over well-drained soils. |
Photograph
available soon. |
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