This warm season, clump-forming group is becoming more popular as new cultivars become available. Cultivars with red fall color and blue foliaged upright cultivars are popular. Most members are warm season, clump forming grasses. Some grasses can become weedy, especially south of Nebraska. Both annual and perennial cultivars are valuable in landscapes.
Flowers are showy and are foxtail-like in their appearance.
I lists grasses useful in Nebraska landscapes. For a more extensive list, see the references. References Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Inc., 1988. Oaks, A. J. Ornamental Grasses and Grasslike Plants.