Sugarcane Plumegrass

Specimen plant or background plant in moist informal garden. This is a mid-sized bunching grass until the flower stalk shoots up in the fall. Then it sports a tall silvery plume that gradually turns to light brown.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

The flower stalks need to be removed once no longer showy.

Birds will eat the seeds.  Provides cover.

Flatwoods, marshes, coastal swales, cypress ponds, lake shores, cutthroat seep.

• Showy flowers, Showy fruits
• Host plant for the Clouded Skipper butterfly (Lerema accius)

• Yerba mate, the traditional tea-like beverage from South America, is made with leaves of a close relative to our holly trees, the Ilex Paraguayanis.
• Yaupon Holly leaves and stems contain caffeine and can be used similarly to make a tea. Native people would ceremonially drink this tea in large quantities to inducing vomiting. This is how Yaupon got its scientific species name, Ilex vomitoria.