Common name:Bull Grass
Botanical name:Muhlenbergia emersleyi

This Muhlenbergia is a cool season, clumping grass with blue-green, course foliage. It grows about 2 to 3 feet tall and wide. Its plume emerges late summer and is purple, though it turns a silvery white as the season progresses. The whole plant turns tan with the first hard frost. A southwest native, it is very heat and drought tolerant once established.

Common name:Switch Grass
Botanical name:Panicum virgatum

Switch grass is a north American native and an original component of the Midwestern Plains. It is a warm-season (it goes dormant during the winter) clumping grass with an upright form, interesting flowers, showy fall color, and a great winter presence. It grows from 4 to 7 feet tall and about half as wide, though in time may spread wider. Airy, delicate flowers appear in mid-summer, hanging along an arching, wiry stem, and are pink to red to orange. Foliage turns yellow to orange in the fall, and the flowers turn a silvery white. there are now many cultivars to choice from, and they all make excellent and low-care additions to perennial or shrub borders, or in more naturally styled settings.

Common name:Indian Grass
Botanical name:Sorghastrum nutans 'Sioux Blue'

Sioux Blue is an eye-catching, warm-season, clumping grass that grows about 5 to 6 feet tall (7 feet in flower) and 3 to 4 feet wide. Medium-wide blades are grey-blue and hold their color until the fall, when they turn a lovely yellow-orange. Plumes emerge July until frost, and are coppery-red. Native across much of North America, Quebec west to Dakotas, south to Arizona, Florida, & Mexico.