Chionochloa conspicua is an alpine tussock which produces huge, feathery flower-heads in summer. Resembles pampas grass, but smaller, more open and airy. Great for cut or dried flowers.Conspicua is derived from the Latin conspicio meaning behold. Great as a specimen plant orsomewhere where you can touch the flowers as you walk by! Tough.
Chionochloa is a genus of tussock grass in theGramineae or true grasses(Poaceae) family, containing mainly species of grass endemic to New Zealand such as snow tussock and red tussock. Most of the 24 species in the genus grow in clumps, some up to 1.5 m tall. They often have attractively coloured leaves and tall stems bearing panicles of small flowering spikelets in summer.
The etymological root of the binomial name Chionochloa is derived from the Greek chiono meaning snow and khloe meaning young green shoots.
Perhaps the toughest of all grasses it grows almost any where and in any place. Use as you like! We often pair it with Kniphofia or Iris.
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