Redtop Panicgrass
Panicum rigidulum
Redtop panicgrass is a clumping wetland grass with reddish, airy seed heads, thriving at pond edges and in wet meadows. Good structure and seed for rain gardens.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–4 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- August, September
- Bloom colors
- brown, red
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, rain garden, naturalizing
- Native states
- AR, FL, GA, LA, MA, MS, NC, SC, TX, VA