Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
Poverty oatgrass is a tough little bunchgrass that thrives on the driest, poorest, most acidic soils where little else grows, with curly basal leaves.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.5–2 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- brown, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, container, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY