Helictotrichon sempervirens - Blue Oat Grass

Well-behaved and highly charming, Blue Oat grass (Helictotrichon sempervirens) is a showy ornamental grass that grows in attractive, round clumps of gracefully arching narrow steel blue leaves. Resembling Blue Fescue (Festuca Glauca) but significantly bigger, it is the best of the mid-sized blue-leaved grasses.

• Type: Ornamental grass
• Zone: 4 to 8
• Height: 2.00 to 3.00 feet
• Spread: 2.00 to 2.50 feet
• Bloom Time: June
• Bloom Description: Bluish brown
• Sun: Full sun
• Water: Dry to medium
  
• Maintenance: Low
  
  
• Flower: Showy
  
  
• Leaf: Colorful
  
  
• Tolerate: Deer, Drought, Black Walnut, Air Pollution