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

Plant Type:  Ornamental Grass

Flower Color:  White seed heads

Flower Size:  Small in thin vertical seed heads

Flowering Period:  Mid-Summer through Winter

Flower Type:  

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color:  Purple bronze

Fragrant Foliage:  No 

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  na

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Birds

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbits, Temporary Wet Soil, black Walnut

With a dazzling succession of color changes throughout the year, ‘The Blues’ is a superstar of a North American native ornamental grass that won the 2022 Perennial Plant Association's Perennial Plant of The Year Award. Its young leaves are an attractive powdery blue with deep purple highlights. In late summer, rosy pink to red flower stalks emerge and rise above the leaves opening to fluffy silver seed heads that contrast beautifully with brilliant burgundy to russet foliage that turns to glowing amber red that holds throughout much of the winter. The upright habit may hold through winter but often the leaves fan out to a graceful open habit. Thriving in containers or in sunny sites with dry, clay, gravel or sandy soils, and tolerant of drought, alkalinity, heat and humidity makes The Blues a very easy-to-grow almost anywhere in the country!

The Blues Little Bluestem Grass is exceptionally easy to grow in well-drained average to poor soils with dry to medium moisture in full sun. It tolerates a wide range of soil types ranging from clay to sandy or rocky. Good drought resistance once established and tolerates both 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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