- Type:
- Grass
- Light Exposure:
- Full Sun, Partial Sun
- Soil Moisture:
- Medium
- Height:
- 3 feet
- Project:
- Raingarden, Restoration, Shoreline Buffer
- Bloom Color:
- Brown, Green
- Bloom Months:
- June, July, August, September
- Flooding / Inundation Tolerance:
- Moderate
- Salt Tolerance:
- Medium
- Stress Tolerance:
- Fire Tolerant, General Disturbance
- Herbivore Sensitivity:
- Low
- Behavior (Rate of Spread):
- 3
- Pollinator Value:
- Low
- Benefit to Pollinators:
- Larval Food
- Pollinators:
- Larval Host (Butterfly), Wind
- Counties:
- Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Blue Earth, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chisago, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Crow Wing, Dakota, Douglas, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Grant, Hennepin, Houston, Hubbardard, Isanti, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Kandiyohibec, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, Le Sueur, Mahnomen, Marshall, McLeod, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Nicollet, Norman, Olmsted, Otter Tail, Pennington, Pine, Polk, Pope, Ramsey, Red Lake, Rice, Roseau, SCottonwood, Sherburne, Sibley, St. Louis, Stearns, Steele, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena, Waseca, Washington, Wilkin, Winona, Wright
Notes/Description:
Readily spreads by underground roots and therefore makes a good shoreline stabilizer.