• Height: 4-5 ft
  
• Spread: 1.5-2 ft
  
• Light: Full Sun
  
• Soil: Average-Moist, Well drained
  
• Zone: 4-9
  
• Deer resistance: Moderate
  
• Deciduous
• Nativar

This is a warm season grass with foliage that starts out blue green and starts taking on red tones in early summer. Transitioning to red earlier than many other cultivars of 'red' Panicums, make this a standout. Late summer will bring deep reds with airy panicles of rosy flowers.

A good wildlife plant especially when the seed heads form. Many of our bird species that are here year round or migrate here for the winter utilize these seeds. Also a larval host plant for many Skipper butterflies and the Common Wood Nymph.

A very easy growing grass that will tolerate a wide range of soils including dry, moist, even occasional flooding. Foliage typically remains very upright but may flop in too much shade or too rich of soil.