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Schizachyrium scoparium
Little Bluestem
Item #: 2003
Category: Grasses
Habit: Perennial
Height: 2-3 feet
Planting Rates:
D-Pak covers 200 sq. ft.
8 lb. per acre
1 lb. covers 5,400 sq. ft.
Suggested seeding rates can be increased 3-4 times or more for fuller coverage sooner.
SOIL TYPE |
SUNLIGHT |
Soil Moisture |
| Sand |
Loam |
Clay |
Caliche |
Full |
Partial |
Dappled |
Shade |
| X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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Dry Medium |
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Description
At home on the range or in your yard, this beautiful blue-green bunch grass turns red-bronze after frost with fluffy, silver-white seeds. Grows 2 to 3 feet at maturity with the seedhead adding another 1 to 2 feet in height. Roots reach 5 to 8 feet deep. Grows on soils of sand, loam, clay or caliche. It grows with Big Bluestem in deep soils of the Oakwoods & Prairies; with Indiangrass/Sideoats on the Edwards Plateau and Rolling Plains; and with the paspalums on the Coastal Prairie. Is found throughout the southern and central US, and provides excellent nesting cover for birds and larval food source for butterflies.
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