Common name: Japanese Blood Grass, Red Baron Blood Grass
Family: Poaceae, Grass
Height x width: 12-18" x 6-12"
Growth rate: slow to moderate
Foliage: to 18" long and ¼" wide, bright red colored beginning early summer through fall, slowly spread by rhizomes to form small groupings (photo courtesy echinodorus, photobucket.com)
Flowers: none
Hardiness: zones 5-9
Soil: moist, well-drained
Light: sun, tolerates part shade but less color
Pests and Problems: none serious, rots for excessive wet
Landscape habit, uses: massed in borders
Other interest: native to Japan, very popular where hardy
Other culture: low maintenance, remove green reversions as they are not colorful and more aggressive
Propagation: spring division, tissue culture may result in green mutations
Species:
cylindrica 'Red Baron' (also seen as var. rubra 'Red Baron' or merely 'Rubra')--as described above, only cultivar; straight species is green and a noxious weed native to Africa, related to Miscanthus, and should not be planted
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