BOUTELOUA CURTIPENDULABue Grama Category: Ornamental Grass Breeder: American Beauties Native Plants Hardiness Zone: 4 9 Height: 24 30 in Spread: 24 30 in Bloom Color: Brown Shades Foliage Color: Blue Shades This native grass has graceful, blue green foliage. Attractive tiny flowers in bright purple and orange appear on tall spikes in late summer. Its name, Sideoats Grama, comes from the way the oat like seeds all lean to one side of the stem, despite emerging on two sides.

Attributes-Colorful foliage

The catkins provide food for many songbirds and are also a host plant and nectar source for a wide variety of butterflies such as

» Easy to use anywhere in the landscape

»  Tolerant of cold climates

Great cut or dried flower

Fuller and more fluffy look

Low-maintenance

shallow cup of a soft pink which is paler at the outer edges

Late spring bloom is a pollinator magnet bringing even more landscape color

Dark purplish red foliage gets peppered with massive clusters of ruby-pink flowers in late summer

Leaves can be used fresh or dried

depending on soil chemistry