Muhlenbergia rigens
at Digging Dog

Deer Grass

photo: briweldon

Muhlenbergia

Muhly

Named in honor of G. H. E. Muhlenberg, a botanist who specialized in grasses, this large, varied genus includes some of the most visually stunning and enduring ornamental grasses for today’s landscape.

Primarily native to arid range areas of the southern U.S. and Mexico, many Muhlenbergias boast not only arresting inflorescences and foliage, but an exceptional tolerance to heat, sun and drought, providing the soil is well drained, as well as abiding short amounts of dappled shade each day.

Muhlenbergia rigens   

A long-time resident of California and other southwestern states, this semievergreen Muhlenbergia yields upright, thin and arrowlike silvery inflorescences reaching beyond the narrow, 18 in. high gray-green foliage. Creating a shimmery veiling effect in the landscape and adding pizzazz to dried arrangements, the reflective flowering stalks bend gracefully as they age.

Let Deer Grass weave its way around the contrasting horizontal form of Arctostaphylos ‘Vancouver Jade’, or superimpose it against Lobelia tupa.

Blooms September–December.

Size: 5' high x 4' wide; hardy to zone 7.

Muhlenbergia rigens (G-0036)
Each $7.50
Add to Cart

Other selections in this genus

• Muhlenbergia capillaris
• Muhlenbergia capillaris ‘White Cloud’
• Muhlenbergia dumosa
• Muhlenbergia lindheimeri