When it blooms
In bloom: August to October
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How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Moist
- Size
- 100–180 cm
- Family
- Poaceae
- Native to
- Ontario
What it feeds
Old Switch Panicgrass is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
BobolinkThreatenedBirdA bubbling song of summer meadows, now threatened. Native grasses rebuild the habitat it raises its young in.
Photos: Photo by Paul Engel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Bobolink also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Old Switch Panicgrass where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.