Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans
Slender blue-green foliage gives way to shimmering, golden-bronze plume-like seedheads with yellow anthers in late summer. A dominant warm-season prairie grass that adds sweeping motion, rich golden autumn color, and vertical structure to sunny landscapes.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- specimen, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, WY