‘Forestburg’ Switchgrass is a warm-season, deciduous, perennial bunchgrass offering nearly year-round interest. An early maturing and long-lived native ornamental grass, ‘Forestburg’ is shorter and has finer leaves than southern varieties. In midsummer to early fall, a multitude of airy, pink-tinged plumes with inconspicuous flowers enhance the pillar of blue-tinted medium-green blades as they turn wheat color in fall. The multi-branched plumes persist into winter, turning beige as they mature into lacy billowing seed heads, lending winter interest to the garden and providing a welcome late-season food source for songbirds and upland gamebirds. The flower plumes can be used in fresh or dried arrangements.

A Panicum virgatum cultivar, commonly called switchgrass, tall prairie grass, or tall panic grass, ‘Forestburg’ is an herbaceous plant with an erect, clump-forming habit and rapid growth rate. The plant also slowly spreads by sh