Stipa tenuissima (Mexican Feather Grass)

Renowned for its exquisite beauty and delicate elegance, Stipa tenuissima (Mexican Feather Grass) features slender, silvery-green leaves that dance gracefully in the gentlest breeze, lending a soft and enchanting touch to any garden. Throughout the summer, it produces abundant feathery panicles that hover just above the foliage, offering a charming display and the potential for stunning dried arrangements. As a native American perennial grass, it provides enduring beauty with its airy, silky green leaves that transition to a warm golden brown in autumn.

• Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.
• Growing easily in a dense fountain-like clump about 12-24 in. tall (30-60 cm) and across, it enjoys full sun and medium to light, moderately fertile, well-drained soils.
• Drought, rabbit, and deer tolerant, Stipa tenuissima requires very little care.
• A graceful accent plant for beds or borders, city or cottage gardens that also does well in containers. Wonderful plant for naturalized meadows thanks to its ability to self-sow.
• Translucent, this deciduous grass mixes beautifully with almost any flowering bulb or perennial to create spectacular and elegantly mobile combinations.
• Generally pest and disease free!
• Sow seed in a cold frame in spring. Divide from mid-spring to early summer.
• Native in North America only to mountains in west Texas and adjacent New Mexico south to central Mexico.