Morning Light Miscanthus Maiden Grass

Zones 4 9 morning light maiden grass blooms later than other miscanthus varieties produce.

Morning light miscanthus maiden grass. Enjoy reddish bronze blooms as fall approaches bringing more color to your yard. It tends to be leggy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground and should be underplanted with lower growing perennials. Cut back warm season grasses in fall or by mid to late spring. Morning light grass will definitely brighten up your day.

This elegant grass has fine arching white and green variegated leaves giving the whole plant a silvery appearance. This maiden grass is noted as a new improved cultivar of miscanthus sinensis. Monrovia s morning light maiden grass details and information. Add silvery foliage to your home with this morning light miscanthus maiden grass.

Warm season grasses won t start growing until mid to late spring or even early summer. Wheat colored flowers appear in late summer to fall and dry to a creamy white adding great drama to the fall landscape. Their major growth and flowering happens when the weather is hot. Straw beige winter foliage with plumes persisting to provide pleasing winter interest.

Each leaf stem of this ornamental grass has a white edge with green in the middle. Blooming later than most miscanthus cultivars morning light displays tiny crimson red plume flowers in late summer or early fall which. Miscanthus morning light common name maiden grass eulalia wine colored stalks rise from delicate silver variegated foliage. Morning light is a eulalia grass cultivar that is noted for its very narrow green leaves with white variegation on the margins.

This grass was once included in the genus eulalia but was subsequently reclassified to the genus miscanthus with retention of its common name of eulalia grass by many gardeners. Appreciated for its more rounded upright habit. Native to regions of japan china and korea morning light maiden grass may be commonly known as chinese silvergrass japanese silvergrass or eulaliagrass. Its fine textured foliage is slightly ivory variegated making it look silver from a distance.

Morning light maiden grass will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 3 feet. They will usually turn shades of brown for the winter. Morning light is a warm season grass. This grass has more of a narrow texture compared to other miscanthus grasses.

Morning light maiden grass miscanthus sinensis morning light sku 6166. Can be planted as an accent in containers or in masses. Morning light miscanthus grass is a versatile ornamental grass loved by birds. Morning light miscanthus maiden grass.

Regarded as the best of all miscanthus species and cultivars morning light enjoys a unique and exquisite vase shape that stands out beautifully in the garden. Showy light plumes display a pink blush all fall and into the winter.