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Eragrostis curvula |
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| Common name |
weeping lovegrass |
| Family |
poaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z7-9) |
| Size |
2-4' in bloom |
| Light |
full sun |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
From seed  |
Flowers first year from seed sown indoors early.
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Tufted grass with hair-like foliage and dark flower clusters. When I first grew it, I didn't know if it would prove to be hardy in our zone 6 garden. Even as an annual, it makes a good mop of hairy grass in a single season - but so far it's been perennial for us. Some years it's slower to return after being beaten back by winter, but our original plant is still there.
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| | We leave ours stand through winter, so we can be treated to sights like this one... |
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| | ...which, by winter's end, devolve to this. Still curvaceous though, in all its deadness |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| anthony (california) | Mar 07, 2006 | how wide do these grasses get?
thank you
Mine arch to cover an area of about 2-3 ft in diameter. I don't know if mature specimens get much larger than that. |
| anthony (sunta cruz,california) | Mar 20, 2006 | do you cut back these grasses?
The top growth dies down in winter, so yes, I need to cut it back before new growth starts in spring. |
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