Flame Grass (Miscanthus ‘Purpurascens’) – 1 Gallon Pot

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Flame Grass

Miscanthus ‘Purpurascens’

Other Names: Flame Maiden Grass

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Ornamental Grass

Height at Maturity: 4-5′ in bloom

Width at Maturity: 3-3.5′
Spacing: 3′ apart for hedges; 7′ or more apart for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright Clump

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Magenta turning White
Flower Size: 6-8″ tall
Flower Type: Plume
Flowering Period: Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid-Fall, Late Fall

Foliage Color: Green in Spring/Summer turning to Vivid Red and Orange shades in fall!

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, prefers consistently moist soil

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy (amend quick draining soils to retain moisture), Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist But Well Drained; prefers consistently moist soil

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Birds, Visual Attention

Resistances: Cold Temperatures (-20F / Zones 5-9), Deer – more info, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

A wonderful hardy ornamental grass, Flame Grass puts on a spectacular show in fall when its handsome, fine-textured, gracefully arching green foliage turns fiery shades of red and orange. What’s more, in mid to late summer magenta flower wands tower above the foliage turning to fluffy white plumes as the season progresses, setting off the vibrant fall foliage. The plumes are great for cutting and use in dried flower arrangements. The slender grassy blades originate in a clump, spreading out and up like a fountain to 4.5 feet tall in bloom and only 3 to 3.5 feet wide. Though not considered a dwarf, Flame Grass makes for a lovely vertical accent in smaller garden spaces and containers or in showy groupings or natural hedges where space allows. One of our favorites!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 4to 5 feet tall and 3 to 3.5 feet wide, Flame Maiden Grass forms a neat, upright, gracefully arching clump that provides outstanding texture in the landscape. It can be useful as a specimen in smaller garden spaces, a vertical accent in container gardens, or small to large groupings on natural hedges anywhere in the sunny landscape where space allows. This is one grass that we use quite often as an accent in home foundation plantings. A fine addition to ornamental grass gardens, bird gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3′ apart for a solid hedge; 7′ or more apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

Flame Grass is very easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility in full to mostly sun. We suggest at least 6 hours of direct sunlight for the best overall performance and foliage density and coloration. Flame Grass prefers more moisture than other Miscanthus varieties. That said, a constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. Maintenance is minimal requiring only an annual pruning before new growth begins to emerge in late winter or very early spring. At this time simply cut plants back to just above the ground.

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