Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
It grows wild in 38 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 2.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Purple
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Grass or sedge
At its grown size
in flowerbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 18 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 4 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Aromatic Aster
Showy Goldenrod
Common Wild Quinine
Orange Coneflower
Steeplebush
Scarlet Beebalm
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Dense Blazing-starFacts from the Quercus record for Schizachyrium scoparium.