How to Grow and Care for Hair-grass

Silver hairgrass (Aira caryophyllea) is an annual grass that will grow to 33 cm tall. Also called bunch grass, it grows in dense clumps and can be invasive. A warm season grass, it produces a flower spike with small tan-colored flowers.

Early hair grass is noted for being a petite hairless grass and a food source for the larvae of the Grayling Butterfly and Coast Dart Moth. It is a tuft-forming annual that is usually found in rocky or gravelly areas and flowers in the spring.

The native range of elegant hair grass centers around the Mediterranean Sea, though it has been imported to other parts of the world. It grows in prairies, along riverbanks, and in disturbed soils.