Mexican Feather Grass
Nassella tenuissima
Plant Details:
Plant Type: Ornamental Grass
Plant Family: Poaceae
Plant Description: This ornamental grass will provide beautiful movement and energy in the landscape with its hair like, extremely fine and flowing light green foliage. A cool-season grass that can hold onto its color for much of the year (may brown as temperatures are at their highest in the summer). Late spring into the early summer brings wispy, wheat colored seed heads that highlight the swaying foliage below. Mexican Feather Grass is self-seeding so plant in an area where it is desired for it to spread or where it can be easily controlled.
Maintenance:
Maintenance Type: Ornamental Grass - Small
Plant Care: Ornamental Grass - Small (showy non-turf grasses that go dormant in winter, under 3' tall): Gather dried seed head stalks in one hand and use hand pruners to cut and remove 2/3 of the total grass height. For warm season grasses (more common), this is best done in late winter to early spring. For cool season grasses apply the same maintenance practices in the late fall, once the plant is dormant.
Plant Attributes:
Mature Size: 24-36" tall x 20-24" wide
Utah Native: No
Plant Select: No
Pollinator Friendly: Unknown
Localscapes: Infill Plant
Foliage Interest: Unknown
Foliage Colors: Light Green
Bloom Colors: White
Bloom Seasons: Late Spring
Bloom Period: May - Jun
Growing Conditions:
Hardiness Zone: 7 to 10
Light Requirement: Full Sun (6+ hrs sun), Part Shade (4-6 hrs morning sun), Part Sun (4-6 hrs afternoon sun)
Irrigation Requirement: 
Moderate (1/2" every 7-10 days)
Moderate (1/2" every 7-10 days)
Salt Tolerant: Unknown
Deer Resistant: Unknown
Garden Location:
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Irrigation Path
- Mountain to Tap
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Localscapes Path
- North Basin
- Paths and Pollinators
- Rock Wall
- South Basin
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Spring -
Summer -
Fall -
Winter
