It is frequently seen along roadsides and is good for poor infertile or dry soils.
Purple three awn grass seed.
Tall and produces colorful purple flowers and seed inflorescences that grow throughout the summer.
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.
Provides good forage before going to seed.
It grows throughout all except east texas on both sandy and clay soils.
This warm season perennial bunchgrass is native to the great plains and grows up to 30 inches tall.
Aristida purpurea purple three awn is a warm season perennial bunch grass.
Its attractive purple tinted seedhead can be seen after periods of rainfall during the growing season.
Starts growth in early spring and again in late summer.
Purple three awn is a short 10 to 20 inch height native grass.
Purple three awn is used in restoration projects beautification projects and planted ornamentally into pots due to its attractive purple color seed heads.
The seed stage is when it s most colorful.
The palea is obscure and mostly enclosed by the lemma.
It makes an interesting addition to any water wise landscape and prefers dry sandy soils in full sun.
Purple three awn is named for its purple seed heads tipped with three awned spikelets which also give this grass its ornamental qualities.