It is frequently seen along roadsides and is good for poor infertile or dry soils.
Purple three awn grass seed.
Purple three awn is used in restoration projects beautification projects and planted ornamentally into pots due to its attractive purple color seed heads.
Provides good forage before going to seed.
Purple three awn is a short 10 to 20 inch height native grass.
Purpurea purple three awn warm season drought tolerant perennial bunchgrass occurring on well drained soils along roadsides flats benches and mesas.
It grows throughout all except east texas on both sandy and clay soils.
Aristida purpurea purple three awn is a warm season perennial bunch grass.
Florets are surrounded by a pair of bracts lemma and palea the lemma thicker than the glumes 3 veined the body 6 to 17 mm long whitish to purplish hairless narrowly lance linear with a 3 branched awn at the tip branches all near the same length 2 to 10 cm to 4 inches long all angled at the base and not coiled awns are all initially straight and twist with age.
This california clumping perennial grass has finely rolled foliage grows 18 24 in.
It makes an interesting addition to any water wise landscape and prefers dry sandy soils in full sun.
Tall and produces colorful purple flowers and seed inflorescences that grow throughout the summer.
Its attractive purple tinted seedhead can be seen after periods of rainfall during the growing season.
The seed stage is when it s most colorful.
Starts growth in early spring and again in late summer.
Purple three awn is named for its purple seed heads tipped with three awned spikelets which also give this grass its ornamental qualities.