Imperata Cylindrica 'Red Baron'

Name: Imperata Cylindrica 'Red Baron'
Common Name: Japanese Blood Grass
Height: 12-18"
Hardy: Zones 6-9
Price: 4" pot is $8; and 1 gallon is $12

Description: Long, slender leaf blades emerge light green with wine-red tips; increasingly red as the season progresses, by fall the leaves are completely blood red; this is the showiest red grass available; slow growing spreader and dormant in the winter with a pleasing copper color, likes moist soil and full sun, can be grown in shallow water as a marginal.