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Light Reqirements: full sun

Soil Moisture: dry/medium

Height: 1-2 ft

Bloom Color: soft reddish-purple

Bloom Time: July-August

Deer Resistant? Yes

Black Walnut tolerant? Yes

Local Ecotype Available? Yes

New York Flora Distribution Map

Purple Love Grass (Eragrostis spectabilis)

From $6.00

I'm native to NY and to Tompkins County.

I’m a warm season grass.

I'm a bunch grass with a soft mounding habit.

My seeds attract birds.

I’m a host plant for the pepper and salt skipper butterfly found in our area.

I like to grow in clumps.

I spread slowly from short rhizomes.

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