USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Ornamental Grass

Flower Color: Tan shades

Flower Size:  Tiny in wands

Flowering Period:  Mid Summer to Early Fall

Flower Type:  -

Fragrant Flowers: -

Foliage Color:  Soft Blue turning to Wine-Red in early fall

Fragrant Foliage:  -

Berries/Seeds:  Brown seeds

Berry Color:  -

Attracts:  Birds, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-20F), Deer, Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbits, Temporary Wet Soil, Black Walnut

Brush Strokes Little Blue Stem Grass is an incredibly easy-to-grow North American native grass plant that glows in the landscape or garden. It forms a cascading mound of silvery blue foliage from which rises vertical, paintbrush-like, bristled, powder-blue stems in summer that turn to a handsome wine-red in fall. Fine hairs on the leaves softly catch the light, creating a glowing effect. Hardy in USDA Zones 3 to 9 means gardeners can enjoy this beauty almost anywhere in the United States. As with other little bluestem cultivars, Brush Strokes is easy to grow in full sun, is highly drought tolerant when established, tolerates periodic wet conditions, and is deer resistant. Reaching 36 inches tall in bloom and 24 inches wide, it is a good fit as an accent in smaller garden spaces and containers or grouped or in drifts where space allows in landscape borders.

Brush Strokes Little Bluestem Grass is easy to grow in moist, well-drained soil of average or even poor fertility and full to mostly sun. Six hours or more of sunlight daily is suggested. Once established, it has good drought resistance and tolerates high heat and humidity. Cut plants back to just above the ground in late winter or early spring before new growth appears.

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