How to Grow and Care for Needle grass

This very slender perennial grass provides interest and movement in the slightest breeze. Hairy feathergrass is commonly used as a low-maintenance ornamental plant, adaptable to various growing conditions and cold-hardy to -15 to -10 ℃.

Lessing feather grass is a common ornamental grass due to its tufting yellow feather-like foliage. The plant is also favoured for its quick growth habit, self-seeding then spreading by underground rhizomes. It is frequently planted in courtyard, city, cottage and gravel gardens, containers, beds, borders, and patios. Although similar to Stipa tenuissima, it is more refined and more prominent in appearance.

Narrow small-reed is a tall deciduous perennial grass. It is called Narrow small-reed because of its fluffy feathers. It loves the sun and is often grown for its foliage as an ornamental in prairie gardens.

Stipa gigantea has leaf blades that are narrow and gray-green, creating a bunchgrass foliage mass 61 to 91 cm in diameter. It is evergreen to semi-evergreen, depending on the climate. The plant has prominent flower spikes emerging silver-laveneder in the late spring, aging to a radiant golden over the summer, and persisting in tan into winter.

This perennial grass with blue-green foliage is a North American native. It's indigenous to California, but it's found in Wyoming, Washington, and Arizona as well. It forms a dense tuft and can be used as a protection from soil erosion. Western needle grass is also considered good forage for cattle, sheep, and horses.