Description
Purple Love Grass, Eragrostis spectabalis
QUART POT
Light: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry
Soil: Gravel, Sand
Height: 1–2 feet
Bloom Season: July, August, September
Bloom Color: Green, Purple
Benefits: Deer Resistant, Host Plant
Notes:
Purple Love Grass is low-growing perennial, warm season grass. It thrives in dry, sandy or gravelly soils—even roadsides that receive road salt in the winter. Purple Love Grass is Black Walnut tolerant. It turns a brilliant, hazy, purplish-pink at the end of summer—so plant for a late summer show! It is a great choice for a dry landscape or in rock gardens.
Eragrostis spectabalis is a host plant for the Zabulon Skipper butterfly.
Photo credits:
1. James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
2. James H. Miller & Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.org
3. Damon E. Waitt, Wildflower Center
