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Bothriochloa barbinodis
Cane bluestem is a perennial bunchgrass native to the Americas, forming upright clumps 60 to 120 cm tall. It is grown for its drought tolerance and blue-green foliage, and suits full sun and dry, well-drained sites.
Bothriochloa barbinodis is a species of grass known by the common name cane bluestem. It is native to the Americas, including most of South and Central America, Mexico, and the southernmost continental United States from California to Florida.
It is a perennial bunchgrass growing in upright clumps 60 to 120 centimetres (24 to 47 in) tall. The straw-colored stems have nodes at intervals, which are fringed with fluffy hairs. The leaves are 20 to 30 centimetres (8 to 12 in) long and blue-green when new, drying to a reddish yellow. The inflorescence is a feathery array of spikelet units. Each unit is composed of one hairy, tan, fertile spikelet with a twisted awn up to 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) long twinned with a stalked, sterile spikelet which is much smaller and lacks an awn. The long-haired spikelets are wind-dispersed.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bothriochloa barbinodis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
