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Recommended Ornamental Grasses for
Bernalillo County
by David Salman, Santa Fe Greenhouses, Inc./High Country Gardens
Characteristics of ornamental grasses
clumping or stoloniferous
warm season or cool season
annual or perennial
Maintenance needed
transplant
cut back in spring
divide old clumps
Design suggestions
Use as focal point in fall and winter gardens
Plant where afternoon sun will backlight seed heads
Avoid using single clumps unless surrounded by other plants
Mix grass species that mature at different heights
Use in combination with shrubs, perennials, cacti and
succulents
Plant small to medium sized grasses in ground covers
Visually anchor large growing species with large rocks, rock
walls or mounding shrubs
*Recommended species and cultivars for New Mexico
Andropogon sacharoides (Silver Beardgrass)
*Aristida purpurea (Purple Thread Grass). native, medium to small
Arundo donax (Giant Cane Grass)
Bouteloua gracilis “Hachita” (“Hachita” Blue Grama Grass) for lawns
*Calamagrostis arundinacea (Karl Foerster" (Feather Reed Grass), adapted,
large
*Calamagrostis brachytricha (Korean Feather Reed Grass), adapted, large
*Elytrigia elongata "Jose Select" (Tall wheatgrass), adapted, large
*Festuca idahoensis “Siskiyou Blue” * (Idaho Festuca Grass), native, medium to
small
*Festuca ovina glauca “Sea Urchin” * (Blue Festuca Grass), adapted, medium to
small
*Helictotrichon sempervirens (Blue Avena Grass) adapted, large
*Miscanthus sinensis "Gracillimus" (Maiden hair Grass), adapted,
large
*Miscanthus sinensis "Yaku Jima" (Dwarf Maidenhair Grass), adapted,
large
*Miscanthus sinensis "Variegatus" (Variegated Maidenhair Grass): adapted, large
*Muhlenbergia capellensis “Regal Mist” (Muhly Grass), native, large
Muhlenbergia rigens (Deer Grass)
*Oryzopsis hymenoides “Nezpar’ (Indian Rice Grass), native, medium to small
*Panicum virgatum "Prairie sky" (Prairie Switch grass), native, large
*Panicum virgatum "Rebraun" (Red Bush Switchgrass), native, large
*Schizachyrium scoparium “Blaze”. “The Blues” (Little Bluestem Grass cultivars),
native, medium to small
*Sporobolis heterolepis (Prairie Dropseed), adapted, native, medium to small
*Sporobolis wrightii (Giant Sacatoon Grass) adapted, large
Stipa gigantea (Giant Threadgrass)
*Stipa neomexicana (New Mexico Threadgrass), native, medium to small
*Stipa tennuifolia (Silky Threadgrass), native, medium to small
For pictures, descriptions and sizes of the above species and varieties go to
the High Country catalog or to their web site at
www.highcountrygardens.com and
click on the link for Ornamental Grasses.
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