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Plant: Gold Bar - Maiden Grass / Miscanthus
Miscanthus sinensis 'Gold Bar'
Size: 1 gal
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More about this plant
Gold Bar is a clump-forming maiden grass reaching about 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide, taller in flower, with long linear blades and silky plumes in late summer. Nurseries note the clump can be leggy with about a foot of clearance, so underplant it with lower perennials. Cut it to the ground in late winter, and plant it about 30 inches apart in full sun.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Gold Bar is a clump-forming maiden grass reaching about 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide, taller in flower, with long linear blades and silky plumes in late summer. Nurseries note the clump can be leggy with about a foot of clearance, so underplant it with lower perennials. Cut it to the ground in late winter, and plant it about 30 inches apart in full sun.
- Flowers
- Terminal panicles of silky spikelets on finger-like racemes (species); cultivars vary in bloom timing and color.
- Foliage
- Long, narrow, linear blades on a clump with about a foot of clearance beneath (nurseries note it can be leggy).
- Pruning
- Cut foliage down in late winter or early spring, before new blades emerge.
- Native range
- China to Malaysia and the Russian Far East to temperate East Asia (species)
