Do grasses bloom? Yes they do! Grass blooms might not be as showy as some of our favorite flowers (grasses don’t need showy flowers to attract pollinators since they’re wind pollinated), but the flowers are beautiful all the same. Hear a few of the native grasses showing out in Habitat Gardens now. Look close, instead of a petal, the flowering unit is called a spikelet. Spikelets are held in arrangements called inflorescences.
1. switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) makes a lovely backdrop with rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium) and compass plant (Silphium integrifolium).
2. switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
3. sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
4. big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi)
5. wild rye (Elymus sp.)
6. longleaf woodoats (Chasmanthium sessiliflorum)
