Grey hair-grass
Corynephorus canescens
In Dutch: Buntgras
Ornamental grassesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.1 to 0.35 m
- Spread
- 20 to 30 cm per tuft
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry, poor and acid sand
- Water
- Little: copes well with drought
- Maintenance
- Low: one cut in spring at most
- Flowers
- June and July, silver-grey
- For bees
- No: grasses are pollinated by the wind
- Hay fever
- Very strongly allergenic, June and July
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn: the old tuft remains
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No, as far as is known
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €3.25 to €4.09 each, as a small plant
- Price, grown
- Not for sale
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- June to July
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit