Meadow Dropseed Grass. The small mature seeds drop to the ground in the fall hence its common name of Dropseed. This vase-shaped tall grass produces golden-yellow plumes in the fall to enrich any garden or landscape.
The panicle is slender somewhat compressed with the base usually enclosed in the upper leaf sheath. Found mainly on the Great Plains from Texas north to southern Saskatchewan this long-lived perennial clump-forming grass also occurs less commonly in certain habitats in scattered. Native grasses are the larval food plants of the Leonards Skipper Hesperia leonardus both Andropogon gerardii and Ascoparius with needlegrass Stipa spp and dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis Swengel 1993 as well as.
With its low-growing habit prairie dropseed is a good fit for many different locations.
Stem 1 12-3 12 ft. Found mainly on the Great Plains from Texas north to southern Saskatchewan this long-lived perennial clump-forming grass also occurs less commonly in certain habitats in scattered. Poor grazing for wildlife. Shown here planted with Lanceleaf Coreopsis Sporobolus heterolepis is often considered to be the most handsome of the native grasses.