Plant: Maiden Grass / Miscanthus Gracillimus
Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus'
$12.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Full Sun
Bloom
SummerFall
More about this plant
A classic maiden grass forming a substantial, rounded, arching clump of fine green foliage 4 to 6 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide. Tassel-like plumes appear above the leaves from late summer into fall. It wants full sun and tolerates a wide range of soils, drought, humidity and salt. Give it room and cut it back in late winter.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A classic maiden grass forming a substantial, rounded, arching clump of fine green foliage 4 to 6 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide. Tassel-like plumes appear above the leaves from late summer into fall. It wants full sun and tolerates a wide range of soils, drought, humidity and salt. Give it room and cut it back in late winter.
- Flowers
- Terminal panicles with finger-like racemes up to 8 in. long, rising above the foliage in late summer and fall; some persist through winter.
- Foliage
- Linear, flat blades with finely toothed margins, 3 to 5 ft long on the species.
- Pruning
- Cut foliage down in late winter or early spring, before new blades emerge.
- Native range
- China through Malaysia and the Russian Far East, temperate East Asia
