Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
Compact, cool-season bunchgrass with shimmering silvery-green flower spikes in early summer. Tidy enough for the front of a dry border. The seed has been ground into flour or cooked like porridge.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 0.75–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds
- Landscape uses
- border, container, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY