Tridens stricta Buffalo Feathers Echinacea further adorned with a purple-black

further adorned with a purple-black floral calyx

hairy leaves

cupped/corrugated blue-leaf hostas with excellent vigor and heat tolerance

we recommend growing these to a larger size in containers protected from temps below freezing before putting them in the ground

The foliage color of peacock spikemoss fern makes an amazing foil for a number of other plants

Tridens stricta Buffalo Feathers Echinacea further adorned with a purple-blackTridens stricta 'Buffalo Feathers' is a 2023 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of a superb Wade Roitsch collection of the US native ornamental grass, Tridens stricta. This seldom seen, densely clumping, perennial ornamental grass, grows in prairie and open pineland habitats from New York south to Florida and west to TX and KS. Each 3' wide clump of longspike tridens produces extremely dense florets of millet like panicles in October November on upright