Molinia
Moor Grass
Innovative landscape architect Wolfgang Oehme, who included more than a million ornamental grasses in his designs, considered Molinias to be some of the very best performers of them all. Certainly the most kinetically exciting grass, Molinia’s dense arching tufts of deep green foliage offer sturdy stems holding delicate panicles that eventually age to a straw color and last for months. To heighten the drama, consider providing plenty of room and a dark background.
Selected by Piet Oudolf and named for the famed Danish nurseryman, this sturdy AGM victor earned a 4-star rating from the Chicago Botanical Garden’s Molinia trials. Feathery inflorescences with petite green and purple flowers on lithe upright stalks prance above the low-growing vase-shaped clump of close-knit, slightly flexed green blades. Roused by a golden copper-hued fall finale, quibble-free ‘Poul Petersen’s attractive bushy visage can be massed in natural-style venues amid chums like Aster ‘Bluebird’ , Echinacea ‘Magnus Superior’ and Sanguisorba ‘Morning Select’, relishing sun, good drainage and adequate moisture.
Blooms July–November
Size: 3' 0" – 3-1/2' high x 3-1/2' – 4' 0" wide.
Zone 4b.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea ‘Bergfreund’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea ‘Cordoba’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea ‘Karl Foerster’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea ‘Skyracer’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea ‘Staefa’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. caerulea ‘Heidebraut’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. caerulea ‘Moorflamme’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. caerulea ‘Strahlenquelle’
- Molinia caerulea ‘Dauerstrahl’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. caerulea ‘Edith Dudszus’
- Molinia caerulea ‘Moorhexe’
- Molinia caerulea ssp. caerulea ‘Purple Infusion’
- Molinia caerulea ‘Transparent’
- Molinia caerulea var. caerulea ‘Variegata’
- Molinia litoralis ‘Windspiel’
