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Plant: White Cloud - Muhly Grass
Muhlenbergia capillaris 'White Cloud'
Size: 1 gal
Light
Bloom
More about this plant
White Cloud is a white-flowered form of muhly grass, a North American native clumping grass. It is upright and open with airy white flowers in fall that come on after the pink muhlys, and NCSU notes it resists tar spot. Muhly grass is easy to grow in any well-drained soil, wants plenty of sun for the best show, and tolerates heat, humidity, drought, poor soil and salt while resisting deer. Plant it in groups or masses for fall color, as a border or as a ground cover.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
White Cloud is a white-flowered form of muhly grass, a North American native clumping grass. It is upright and open with airy white flowers in fall that come on after the pink muhlys, and NCSU notes it resists tar spot. Muhly grass is easy to grow in any well-drained soil, wants plenty of sun for the best show, and tolerates heat, humidity, drought, poor soil and salt while resisting deer. Plant it in groups or masses for fall color, as a border or as a ground cover.
- Flowers
- Airy, open plumes up to 12 inches long rise about a foot above the foliage in fall.
- Foliage
- Fine, wiry, thread-like linear leaves 18 to 36 inches long and under an inch wide.
- Fruit
- Small dry seeds in tan plumes that persist through winter.
- Native range
- Central and eastern U.S. south to Mexico, Guatemala and the Caribbean
