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Grass ID please 🌱

dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
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Got this from a church plant stall, but it was unlabelled.

It’s currently and thriving in part sun.

Is it a switch grass and if so, which one? I’m hoping it’s a perennial so I can stick it in one of my beds, unless it’s a rampant invader…



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  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Possibly Panicum Rehbraun?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited September 2023
    Maybe Panicum Frosted Explosion.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Thanks.
    I wonder if it would behave as a perennial here in north London. 
    Not sure I want to uproot it and replant it if it’s going to behave as an annual!
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Love your quotation @punkdoc
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited September 2023
    Thanks. Billy Bragg.

    It doesn't look like P.Rehbraun to me, that has red tipped leaves.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @dappledshade I think it is treated as a annual.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    This is a close up of frosted explosion online. Seems more like a bunch of seed head on a single stem, creating that firework effect, than my one.


  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    edited September 2023
    punkdoc said:
    Thanks. Billy Bragg.

    It doesn't look like P.Rehbraun to me, that has red tipped leaves.
    True. This has no red at all, and the seed heads are light gold.
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Ah that’s a shame @GardenerSuze.
    I wonder how easy it is to grow from seed myself…
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @dappledshade Easy from seed. The photo you have just posted may show it earlier in the season?

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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