Fowl Mannagrass
Glyceria striata
An adaptable, cool-season wetland grass that forms neat clumps topped by delicate, weeping, purplish seed heads resembling a spraying water fountain. Extremely valuable for wetland restorations, rain gardens, and pond edges, providing nesting cover and seed.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 5.7–5.7 ft
- Spacing
- 1.5–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing, rain garden, erosion control
- Native states
- AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY