Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’
Switch Grass
‘Heavy Metal’ is a rhizomatous perennial grass forming clumps of upright metallic blue-grey leaves, turning yellow in autumn. Broad, diffuse, weeping panicles to 50cm long of tiny purple-green spikelets in early autumn. Hardy but not evergreen.
Eventual size: 60 cm to 1.2 m
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