Andropogon ternarius ~ Splitbeard Bluestem - Delivered By ServeScape
Andropogon ternarius ~ Splitbeard Bluestem-ServeScape
Andropogon ternarius ~ Splitbeard Bluestem - Delivered By ServeScape

Andropogon ternarius

Splitbeard Bluestem

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**Dormancy Note - This plant is currently dormant for the winter! It is available for purchase! Your delivered plant may be dormant, or showing very little top growth. However, you can still plant! These plants are putting all their energy into root production, so they will be ready to thrive in the spring! If you have any issues with your plant the following peak season, you can fill out our return request form to request a replacement plant.

Splitbeard Bluestem is a native grass that has refined but sturdy blue-green foliage that becomes multicolored with blues, purples and reds in fall. The spikelets have tips covered in bright white hairs that catch the sun and are prized for use in dried and fresh flower arrangements.  Grows best in full sun and moist, loamy well-drained soils.

The Andropogon genus is a host plant for the Common Wood-Nymph butterfly and various skipper butterflies.

Type: 

Orn. Grass

Origins:

South, Central, East N. America; GA Native

Height: 

2' - 4'

Spread: 

2' - 3'

Spacing: 

1.5'

USDA Hardiness Zone: 

6 - 9

Culture: 

Full Sun

Bloom Color: 

White

Season of Interest: 

Summer, Fall

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low Maintenance.  Prefers moist, fertile, loamy soils that do not dry out and is generally intolerant of dry soils. It should be noted that the moist soil preference for this species distinguishes it from most other species of Andropogon. Freely self-seeds in optimum growing conditions. Cut clumps to the ground in late winter to early spring before new shoots appear. Warning: highly flammable.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Mass Plantings, BordersNaturalized Areas, Meadows,  Groundcover, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Milkweed, Tickseed, Black Eyed Susan

IMAGES: USGS, (3) Photo by Tom PotterfieldAndropogon ternarius (splitbeard bluestem)

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

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