Sporobolus heterolepis - Prairie Dropseed Columnar The flowers also attract many

The flowers also attract many specialized native bees

There is a catch

or dusty miller provide cooling foliage contrast that makes the orange blooms appear even more luminous

In late summer through fall

Blooms are eye-popping on a blanket of darker green foliage

Sporobolus heterolepis - Prairie Dropseed Columnar The flowers also attract manyPrairie dropseed stands as one of the most refined and elegant ornamental grasses native to North America, offering four season interest and exceptional adaptability to cultivated landscapes. This warm season perennial clump forming grass is indigenous to the tallgrass and mixed grass prairies of central North America, ranging from Texas north to southern Saskatchewan, with scattered populations extending eastward through the Midwest and Northeast to