Redtop Panicgrass
Panicum rigidulum
Redtop panicgrass is a clumping wetland grass with reddish, airy seed heads, thriving at pond edges and in wet meadows. Good structure and seed for rain gardens.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3.3–3.3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- July, August
- Bloom colors
- green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, rain garden, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV
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