Stipa barbata Yucca and attractive early fruit

and attractive early fruit

finely textured clumping lily relation to 4-6 in and slowly spreading

The hardiest parent of the Dunedin Group

Summer dormant

Stipa barbata Yucca and attractive early fruitA long time, garden tested needlegrass from southern Europe with long, feathered seedheads that curl sinuously above the foliage, reflecting the low angled sunlight of a fall afternoon. One of the most asked about plants in the Cistus garden when in bloom. A clumper, the blades grow to 2 ft by 2 ft, and the inflorescence (flowering stalk) to 3 ft. Sun, and not much summer water. Cold hardy to USDA zone 6. SILVER FEATHER GRASS Poaceae