Fort Bend County Master Gardeners

Photo from Fort Bend County Master Gardeners,
Texas Native Demonstration Garden

A great ornamental grass which provides a fine textured basal foliage. Usually with dark green glossy leaves and airy inflorescence colored pink, purplish red, and purplish gray.

Muhly Grass has a clumping form growing 3- to 4-feet-tall and about as wide. A stiff, upright growth habit makes this markedly different from many other grasses. Delicate purple flowers emerge in the fall well above the foliage and can literally cover the foliage. It is native to pine flatwoods, coastal upland and beach dunes, and sandhill communities. This is very similar to Muhlenbergia filipes.

Common Name	Gulf muhly, Pink Hair Grass, Pink Muhly, Mule Grass
Scientific Name	Muhlenbergia capillaris
Plant Habit or Use	ground use
Exposure	sun or partial sun
Heat Tolerance	high
Soil Requirements	Well drained soil does well in hot dry sandy sites. Very drought tolerant.
Above information from www.ces.ncsu.edu (North Carolina State University) and hort.ifas.ufl.edu (University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service)