Silk-grass

Minimize competition especially if it is over-topping the Pityopsis.



Wildflower garden. Foliage can be attractive year-round as silvery-gray green. Also suitable for naturalizing. The foliage will spread into a small mat which can be used to some extent as a groundcover.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Cut back after flowering to keep it neat.

Sandhill, scrub, scrubby flatwoods, flatwoods, dry prairie, disturbed areas.

• Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Attracts bees and butterflies. A pollinator study at the Archbold Biological Station documented over 30 species of bees visiting this species (Deyrup et al. 2002).