planting love grass seed Purple Lovegrass

planting love grass seed Purple LovegrassEragrostis spectabilis Also known as Purple Lovegrass, Purple Love Grass, Purple Plains Lovegrass, Tumblegrass, Petticoat Climber Purple Lovegrass is a warm season bunchgrass that's native to sandy soils stretching from Maine to South Dakota and all the way south to Florida, Texas, Arizona, and Mexico. This grass features flat, coarse, green leaves that grow in a somewhat relaxed clump and can reach up to about 10 inches tall. Come August, soft,

Eragrostis spectabilis

Also known as Purple Lovegrass, Purple Love Grass, Purple Plains Lovegrass, Tumblegrass, Petticoat Climber

Purple Lovegrass is a warm-season bunchgrass that's native to sandy soils stretching from Maine to South Dakota and all the way south to Florida, Texas, Arizona, and Mexico. This grass features flat, coarse, green leaves that grow in a somewhat relaxed clump and can reach up to about 10 inches tall. Come August, soft, reddish-purple flowers spill out in an airy display, making the grass clump pop and reach as high as 24 inches. These flowers eventually turn brown and lose their color. When the seeds mature, the inflorescence often breaks free from the plant and dances along the ground like a tumbleweed, spreading its seeds as it travels.

Purple Lovegrass flourishes in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils under full sunlight. It loves sandy or gravelly loams in hot, dry spots and shows impressive resilience in infertile soils too. Thanks to its excellent drought resistance, this grass can spread by self-seeding and by the stems rooting along the ground at the nodes. If you're interested in propagating it, you can easily do so using either seed or division in the spring.

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Height: 1’-2'
Spread: 1’-2'
Bloom: July-August
Light: Full Sun
Water: Low-Medium
Zone: 5-9
Origin: North America