A very large tropical bamboo, often arching. Tough thick walled culms have white rings above and below each node from which large branches grow. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants, growing […]

Used to make paper and for weaving, this has very thin culm walls. The culms are covered with white powder. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants, growing slowly outward. Clumpers tend […]

This recent U.S. import is short and green. It foliage consists of narrow leaves. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants, growing slowly outward. Clumpers tend to be tropical or subtropical. Bamboo […]

This large, arching bamboo has thick-walled culms with short internodes. When it is young its culms are covered with white powder. Its edible shoots are prized for their flavor. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer […]

This soft, thick-walled variety grows very fast and tall with edible shoots. Thorny lower branches are long and wiry. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants, growing slowly outward. Clumpers tend to […]

This variety comes from Northern Territory, Australia and grows along waterways. Its thick culms with short internodes grow in dense clumps with low branches. Clump bamboos have underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants, growing […]

The cultivar ‘Mauve Pink’ is a low-growing perennial which produces a profusion of tiny, mauve-pink flowers and is usually grown as an annual. Leaves are rounded and mid-green. Flowers are pink and star-shaped. Great in hanging baskets, or as a […]

The cultivar ‘Baccharis’ is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with gray-green to rich green leaves. The habit is very rounded, 5 to 12 feet tall and wide. In late summer and fall, fruit with fine white hairs covers the bush on […]

This grass, known as carpet grass, has two to five ascending spiked seedheads from flattened, smooth stolons. Smooth leaf blades with rounded tips. Long hairs appear on leaf sheath margin and base margin. Seed and stolon reproduction. Prefers moist, low […]

Species in the grass family (Poaceae)have narrow grasslike foliage, with leaf veins typically parallel to one another, and the leaf margins are most often smooth. With a few exceptions, such as bamboo, most grasses are herbaceous, meaning they do not […]