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Sorghastrum nutans 'Golden Sunset' - INDIAN GRASS 'GOLDEN SUNSET'
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SOR-NUT-GOL
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$8.99
Olive-green wider leaves, yellow-golden flowers from mid August (warm season grass). Low maintenance, deer resistant grass. Excellent vertical and never flopping structure.
Pest and disease free.
Blooming Time: mid August till late winter
Size: clumps 5-6' tall x 2-3' wide, moderately fast growing. In the first years reaches about 4' in height.
USDA Zones: 3 to 9
Culture: full sun to filtered sun, adaptable to many soil types - including acidic, slightly alkaline, clayish, very poor, rocky, sandy, lean.
Moisture Needs: medium (average) to medium-dry or drier, tolerates poor soils.
Origin: Selected in University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (that explains excellent hardiness) in 2005. Propagated since 2010 and successfully trialed in many parts of the Midwest. Registered under Golden Sunset™ (Sorghastrum nutans 'MNYG318153').Plant is patented under PP33776.
The species is native grass to nearly all USA, except western states. Typical tall grass prairie plant of Midwest.
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: no/no, but host plant for for caterpillars of Pepper-and-Salt Skipper, Several species of grasshopper feed on leaves
Attracts Hummingbirds or birds: no, but provides shelter and nesting material to many birds.
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Good with Achillea, Agastache, Amsonia, summer blooming Allium, Asclepias tuberosa, Aster, Baptisia, Calamintha, Coreopsis, other Echinacea, Eryngium, Eupatorium hyssopifolium, Gaura, Hemerocallis, Iris x barbata (I. x gemanica), I. sibirica, Knautia, Liatris, Monarda, Nepeta, Oenothera, Penstemons, Platycodon (taller ones), Rudbeckia, Salvia nemorosa hybrids, tall Sedum, Solidago, Stachys, Vernonia lettermannii, taller Veronica, Yucca, and grasses like Bouteloa, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sorghastrum or Panicum.
Great for urban landscaping (tolerates air-pollution), prairie or meadow plantings, drier upper parts of rain gardens, naturalistic planting or bigger perennial bed, deer resistant plantings. Can be used for erosion control.
Picture Copyright: Walters Gardens
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Sorghastrum nutans 'Golden Sunset' - INDIAN GRASS 'GOLDEN SUNSET'
$8.99
Olive-green wider leaves, yellow-golden flowers from mid August (warm season grass). Low maintenance, deer resistant grass. Excellent vertical and never flopping structure.
Pest and disease free.
Blooming Time: mid August till late winter
Size: clumps 5-6' tall x 2-3' wide, moderately fast growing. In the first years reaches about 4' in height.
USDA Zones: 3 to 9
Culture: full sun to filtered sun, adaptable to many soil types - including acidic, slightly alkaline, clayish, very poor, rocky, sandy, lean.
Moisture Needs: medium (average) to medium-dry or drier, tolerates poor soils.
Origin: Selected in University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (that explains excellent hardiness) in 2005. Propagated since 2010 and successfully trialed in many parts of the Midwest. Registered under Golden Sunset™ (Sorghastrum nutans 'MNYG318153').Plant is patented under PP33776.
The species is native grass to nearly all USA, except western states. Typical tall grass prairie plant of Midwest.
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: no/no, but host plant for for caterpillars of Pepper-and-Salt Skipper, Several species of grasshopper feed on leaves
Attracts Hummingbirds or birds: no, but provides shelter and nesting material to many birds.
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Good with Achillea, Agastache, Amsonia, summer blooming Allium, Asclepias tuberosa, Aster, Baptisia, Calamintha, Coreopsis, other Echinacea, Eryngium, Eupatorium hyssopifolium, Gaura, Hemerocallis, Iris x barbata (I. x gemanica), I. sibirica, Knautia, Liatris, Monarda, Nepeta, Oenothera, Penstemons, Platycodon (taller ones), Rudbeckia, Salvia nemorosa hybrids, tall Sedum, Solidago, Stachys, Vernonia lettermannii, taller Veronica, Yucca, and grasses like Bouteloa, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sorghastrum or Panicum.
Great for urban landscaping (tolerates air-pollution), prairie or meadow plantings, drier upper parts of rain gardens, naturalistic planting or bigger perennial bed, deer resistant plantings. Can be used for erosion control.
Picture Copyright: Walters Gardens
