Bull Muhly Part Shade star-shaped flowers

star-shaped flowers

Big Bluestem

two-lipped blue-purple flowers that blossom in lovely branched terminal racemes from May to September

it doesn’t spread through rhizomes and can easily be grown from seed

canyon maple

Bull Muhly Part Shade star-shaped flowersMuhlenbergia emersleyi Bull Muhly is a clumping evergreen grass with a slightly coarse texture and long blue green leaves. Its showy loose, rosy purple flower spikes, which dry to a warm tan color as winter arrives, provide seed for birds. It is also a larval host plant for the Red Bordered Satyr Butterfly and the Large Roadside Skipper Butterfly. Not only is it drought tolerant; it also thrives in full sun, cozy heat reflected spots, and even in part