Deschampsia cespitosa

Cool season; Perennial

Characteristics: 3–4’; mound; foliage dark green; flowers beige

Growing Conditions: average to wet soils; sun to shade; hardy zones 3–9

This mound-forming grass requires moisture to establish. It is semi-evergreen, and one of the first grasses to grow in the spring. Foliage may show rust, but it is not fatal.

Nativars:

• ‘Bronzeschleier’: bronze veil hairgrass, flowers are darker, more bronze colored.
• ‘Goldstaub’: gold dust hairgrass, shorter, only 1–2’, beautiful mound habit.
• ‘Schottland’: Scotland hairgrass, yellow flowers, 2–3’, most common nativar.

Associated Lepidoptera:

No records of Lepidoptera feeding on tufted hairgrass were found in the literature, but further research into Lepidoptera larval habits may discover associations in the future.