Three-flower Melic
Melica nitens
Three-flower melic is a cool-season woodland bunchgrass of rocky bluffs and open woods, with nodding seed clusters, well suited to dry shade and naturalized plantings.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–3.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AR, IA, IL, IN, KS, MO, OK, PA, TX