Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
Yellow, pink, purple and red flowers from July into September, worked by oil bees. It grows wild in 45 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 5 ft to 7 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, pink, purple and red, Jul to Sep
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 12 in of soil
- Kind
- Grass or sedge
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 24 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 35 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Oil bee (Rediviva simulans)
Grows well with
Swamp Azalea
New England Aster
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Inkberry
Hollow Joe-pye-weedFacts from the Quercus record for Panicum virgatum.