Broomsedge Bluestem

This plant can be used as a background planting that will create a light orange haze during the late fall and winter months. Andropogon virgnicus var. glaucus (chalky bluestem) is very light blue-green in color and grows in dry sites.



Background planting or as a casual tall bunching or clumping grass in meadow-like settings.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Can be aggressive in disturbed lands.

Provides food and nesting material for many small birds and other small animals.

Open seepage areas, flatwoods, marshes, ruderal areas.

• Interesting foliage
• Larval host for zabulon skipper (Poanes zabulon).