Moor Grass

Ornamental Features:

Moor Grass's grassy leaves emerge chartreuse in spring, turning green in colour. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous gold in the fall. It features dainty spikes of tan flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late summer. The tan seed heads are carried on showy plumes displayed in abundance from early to late fall.

Landscape Attributes:

Moor Grass is an open herbaceous ornamental grass with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance ornamental grass, and is best cut back to the ground in late winter before active growth resumes. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Moor Grass is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Border Edging
• Mass Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Moor Grass will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 15 years.

This ornamental grass does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This species is not originally from North America.