Purple three awn is used in restoration projects beautification projects and planted ornamentally into pots due to its attractive purple color seed heads.
Purple three awn grass seed.
It is frequently seen along roadsides and is good for poor infertile or dry soils.
Tall and produces colorful purple flowers and seed inflorescences that grow throughout the summer.
This warm season perennial bunchgrass is native to the great plains and grows up to 30 inches tall.
The palea is obscure and mostly enclosed by the lemma.
Florets are surrounded by a pair of bracts lemma and palea the lemma thicker than the glumes 3 veined the body 6 to 17 mm long whitish to purplish hairless narrowly lance linear with a 3 branched awn at the tip branches all near the same length 2 to 10 cm to 4 inches long all angled at the base and not coiled awns are all initially straight and twist with age.
Purple three awn is a short 10 to 20 inch height native grass.
Its attractive purple tinted seedhead can be seen after periods of rainfall during the growing season.
Purple three awn is named for its purple seed heads tipped with three awned spikelets which also give this grass its ornamental qualities.
The seed stage is when it s most colorful.
It makes an interesting addition to any water wise landscape and prefers dry sandy soils in full sun.
Purpurea purple three awn warm season drought tolerant perennial bunchgrass occurring on well drained soils along roadsides flats benches and mesas.
Aristida purpurea purple three awn is a warm season perennial bunch grass.
Purple three awn deserves more attention than it gets.
Provides good forage before going to seed.