Blue
1.Helictotrichon sempervirens
Common Name: blue oat grass
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: Ornamental grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 4-8
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Foliage Description: Features very narrow (3/8″ wide), spiky, steel blue leaf blades (to 18″) which form a rounded, porcupine-like clump
Cultivation: Full sun, dry to medium, low maintenance
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2.Festuca glauca
Common Name: blue fescue
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: Ornamental grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 4-8
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Foliage Description: short-lived, low-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming
Cultivation: Dry to medium, full sun. medium maintenance
Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=k250
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Yellow
1.Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
Common Name: Japanese forest grass
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: rhizomatous, shade-loving, deciduous perennial grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 5-9
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Foliage Description: linear-lanceolate, bright green leaves (to 10″ long and 3/8″ wide)
Cultivation: Part shade, medium water
Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b168
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2.Carex elata ‘Aurea’
Common Name: Bowles’ golden sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae
Type: Sedge, water plants
USDA Hardness Zone: 5-9
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Foliage Description:Aurea’ has shimmering yellow leaves with dark green margins. It reflects its beautiful color on ponds and streams.
Cultivation: Part shade to full shade, medium to wet.
Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b880
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3.Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’
Common Name: sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae
Type: Sedge
USDA Hardness Zone: 5-9
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Foliage Description: Golden leaf with green edges
Cultivation: Part shade, medium to wet.
Suitable Uses: Rain garden
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Pink
1.Calamagrostis*acutiflorus ‘Karl Forster’
Common Name: feather reed grass
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: Ornamental grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 5-9
Height and Width: 1.2m
Foliage Description: narrow-vertical growth of bright green leaves to 3’ tall and 2’ wide and feathery plumes of summer-blooming pink to purple tinged flowers on narrow upright stalks
Cultivation: Full sun, medium to wet (Rain Garden)
Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b810
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2.Pennisetum orientale
Common Name: oriental fountain grass
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: Ornamental grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 5-8
Height and Width: 1m,1m
Foliage Description: gray-green leaves (to 1/4” wide). Showy, fluffy, pinkish-white flower
Cultivation: full sun to part shade, medium water
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green
1.Deschampsia cespitosa
Common Name: tufted hair grass
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: Ornamental grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 4-9
Height and Width: 1.2m, 0.3m
Foliage Description: It typically forms a low, dense tussock. Flower stems rise in summer from the foliage mound to a height of 3′ bearing wide, airy panicles (to 20″ long) of tiny, variably-colored flowers
Cultivation: Part shade, Medium water
Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=c450
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2.Molinia caerulea ‘Variegata’
Common Name: purple moor grass
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: Ornamental grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 4 to 9
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Foliage Description: dense, green.
Cultivation: full sun, medium to wet
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3.Sporobolus heterolepis
Common Name: prairie dropseed
Family Name: Poaceae
Type: Ornamental grass
USDA Hardness Zone: 3-9
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Foliage Description: fine texture, hair like
Cultivation: full sun, dry to medium, low maintenance
Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=f680
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4.Carex pendula
Common Name: pendulous sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae
Type:
USDA Hardness Zone:
Height and Width: 1.8m
Foliage Description: drooping spikes
Cultivation: industrial looking, lush, competitive
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5.Phormium tenax
Common Name: New Zealand flax
Family Name: Xanthorrhoeaceae
Type: Evergreen Herbaceous perennial
USDA Hardness Zone: 9-11
Height and Width: 2m-3m
Foliage Description: sword-shaped
Cultivation: Full sun to part shade, medium water
Reference: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a541
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