Plains Lovegrass
Eragrostis intermedia
A drought-hardy, warm-season native bunchgrass that produces delicate, cloud-like panicles of shimmering purple-tinged spikelets in late summer. The fine-textured seedheads dance in autumn winds, providing winter seed for ground-foraging birds and adding soft texture to dry meadow plantings.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2.7–2.7 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- pink, purple
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, KS, MA, MO, MS, NM, OK, TN, TX