It makes an interesting addition to any water wise landscape and prefers dry sandy soils in full sun.
Purple three awn grass seed.
This california clumping perennial grass has finely rolled foliage grows 18 24 in.
Purple three awn deserves more attention than it gets.
It is frequently seen along roadsides and is good for poor infertile or dry soils.
Provides good forage before going to seed.
Tall and produces colorful purple flowers and seed inflorescences that grow throughout the summer.
Purpurea purple three awn warm season drought tolerant perennial bunchgrass occurring on well drained soils along roadsides flats benches and mesas.
Aristida purpurea purple three awn is a warm season perennial bunch grass.
The palea is obscure and mostly enclosed by the lemma.
Starts growth in early spring and again in late summer.
It grows throughout all except east texas on both sandy and clay soils.
Its attractive purple tinted seedhead can be seen after periods of rainfall during the growing season.
Purple three awn is a short 10 to 20 inch height native grass.
Florets are surrounded by a pair of bracts lemma and palea the lemma thicker than the glumes 3 veined the body 6 to 17 mm long whitish to purplish hairless narrowly lance linear with a 3 branched awn at the tip branches all near the same length 2 to 10 cm to 4 inches long all angled at the base and not coiled awns are all initially straight and twist with age.
Purple three awn is used in restoration projects beautification projects and planted ornamentally into pots due to its attractive purple color seed heads.