Giant Sacaton Grass
Sporobolus wrightii
3-4 feet high x 3 feet wide
Zone 4
Full Sun to Part Shade
Plant Select® 2006. Think big and bold with this blue-green mounding fountain of a grass to add to your xeriscape garden or a well drained regular flower bed! At maturity the grass blades alone will be 3-4 feet tall and width to about 3 feet and the pinkish blooms maturing into white seed heads extending to 7 feet! Use as an accent, backdrop or even windbreak to show off this beauty!
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Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these. These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care. These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death. About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.