Chasmanthium latifolium

This grass has ornamental value, winter interest, and dangling seed can be used in arrangements. It may spread under favorable conditions so consider placing it in a contained situation. Excellent choice for stream-sides, slopes and erosion control. Provides cover and seed for birds. Grown from Kentucky-source seed.

Light: Full Sun to Part Shade
Soil: Average to Wet
Height: 3 feet

Andropogon gerardii

Native warm season grass with ornamental value. Leaves turn bronze in fall, seed heads purplish. Drought tolerant once established.

Light: Full Sun
Soil: Dry to Medium
Height: 4 to 6 feet

Schizachyrium scoparium

Used as an ornamental grass with silvery & bluish green leaves in rain gardens & pollinator gardens. Attractive bronze fall foliage & purplish flowers. Provides food & cover for wildlife.

Light: Full Sun
Soil: Average to Dry
Height: 2 to 4 feet
Blooms: August to February

Muhlenbergia capillaris

Highly ornamental grass with thread-like leaves that form a tidy clump to 2 feet in height. Named for the lasting pink clouds of flowers that rise to 1 foot above the leaves.

Light: Full Sun to Light Shade
Soil: Dry to Average
Height: 2 feet, 3 feet when in bloom
Blooms: September to November
Flowers: Pink

Carex typhina

Like other sedges, this plant is excellent for wildlife and for erosion control on the banks of lakes, streams and other waterways. Grown from Kentucky-source seed.

Light: Full Sun to Part Shade
Soil: Moist
Height: 1 to 3 feet

Eragrostis spectabilis

A low growing, clump-forming ornamental grass that tolerates dry, sandy soils in full sun. Airy reddish-purple inflorescence's appear in August and last through September and are a pleasant addition to floral arrangements. Grown from Kentucky-source seed.

Light: Full Sun
Soil: Dry to Average
Height: 1 to 2 feet
Blooms: August

Carex vulpinoidea

Foliage is clump-forming and often a pleasant yellow-green. Like other sedges, this plant is excellent for wildlife and for erosion control on the banks of lakes, streams and other waterways. A rapidly spreading plant. Grown from Kentucky-source seed.

Light: Full Sun to Part Shade
Soil: Moist
Height: 1 to 3 feet

Carex flaccosperma

A small, clump-forming sedge with blue-green foliage. Ours grow in full sun & require no supplemental watering and, although they slowly grow larger, do not spread via rhizomes making them friendly to home use such as bordering a walkway or edge. Kentucky source.

Elymus hystrix

Interesting appearance, useful for edge or back drop setting. Seeds attract birds. Adaptable to a variety of soil types.

Light: Full sun to Part shade
Height: to 3 feet
Soil: Dry to Medium
Blooms: September to October

Sorghastrum nutans

Attractive tall, deep-rooted native grass that makes a good riparian buffer plant for erosion control. Foliage turns orangish in fall. Spreads by rhizomes, seed.

Light: Full Sun
Soil: Dry to Medium
Height: 4 to 6 feet

Panicum virgatum

Clumping, vertical ornamental grass with foliage to 3' and with flowering stalks to 6'. May lose form or flop in less than full sun or overly rich soil. Will slowly expand via rhizomes. Cut to the ground by early spring.

Light: Full Sun
Soil: Medium
Height: 3 to 6 feet
Blooms: late summer

Sporobolus heterolepis

Highly ornamental native grass forming tidy mounds that do not spread. Fragrant at flowering time. Front yards & borders, slopes and rock gardens.

Light: Full sun
Height: Foliage 1-2 feet, to 3 feet with flowers
Soil: Medium to Dry