Easyliving Native Perennial Wildflowers
Native Wild Flower Seed & Plants for Home Landscaping & Prairie Restoration
Sorghastrum nutans
(sore-GAS-strum  NUT-ans)
Indian Grass

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Sorghastrum nutans Indian Grass potted plants $4 each plus ups shipping

Some grass seeds are very bulky, please email for shipping charges on ounce or pound quantities of grass seed.

Sorghastrum nutans, Indian Grass, is a warm season clump forming native grass with feathery plumes and is a host plant for Skipper butterflies.  Indian Grass grows best in full sun and average moisture and looks great when used in the back border of a perennial bed, in a prairie meadow, or as an accent plant in the butterfly garden.  The Indian Grass Plant in the picture above is about 6 feet tall and one of many growing wild on a roadside near my home.

Indian Grass grows best in deep, well-drained floodplain soils but is highly tolerant of poorly to excessively well-drained soils, acid to alkaline conditions, and textures ranging from sand to clay.  Indian Grass was a major component of the tall grass vegetation which once dominated the prairies of the central and eastern United States.  Indiangrass is widespread growing in upland prairies, glades, and open woods from the eastern seaboard to North Dakota, south to Arizona and Old Mexico. 

The map below shows areas where Indian Grass plants grow wild, it is hardy and will grow over a much wider area if planted.  Plant in USDA plant hardiness zones 3 to 9. Gramineae (Grass Family)

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please email for shipping charges on ounce or pound quantities of grass seed.

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Plant distribution map complements of USDA, NRCS. 2001. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.1
  (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.