Andropogon grass named ‘Blue Steel’

Abstract

A new and distinct ornamental Big Bluestem Grass Andropogon plant named ‘Blue Steel’ with broad, distally-arching, bluish-green foliage that develops reddish-purple leaf ends about late summer. The upright and dense culms that resist lodging produce medium-height plants with panicles beginning purplish-grey and becoming tan seed heads that are retained into winter. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen or en masse.

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