Nursery Grasses

Big bluestem adds a beautiful reddish hue to the late summer landscape.

The stalks alternate between green and a gorgeous reddish brown and the copper-coloured seed heads are covered in silky hairs.

Profuse flower stalks bear fruits in star-like clusters.

A common woodland sedge that is often mistaken for short, soft grass.

A taller grass with seed heads that are burgundy with distinctive white “stripes”.

When flowering, the narrow, densely-flowered spikes open up and are very showy.

Its stiff, erect stature and beautiful, pyramid-shaped panicles give it an air of confidence and endurance,

The fine and airy panicles are a gorgeous silver tinged with purple.

This fine-leaved bunch-grass forms beautiful circular clumps with the leaves radiating outward.

I have rarely, seen this prairie grass growing naturally in open prairie in Manitoba, despite its common use in prairie restorations.