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Wednesday - June 23, 2010
From: Iola, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Shade Tolerant, Turf, Grasses or Grass-like
Title: Will Thunder Turf do well in shade from Iola TX
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:
Will the Thunder Turf do well in shady areas or is there a better blend of native grasses that would thrive better?ANSWER:
Native American Seed has a product page on Thunder Turf, which indicates that it is full sun only. At this point there are no shade-tolerant native grasses that could be considered turf grasses, low-growing and mowable. NAS also has a Shade Friendly Grass Mix composed of:
Tridens flavus (purpletop tridens)
Chasmanthium latifolium (Inland sea oats)
Elymus canadensis (Canada wildrye)
Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama)
Elymus virginicus (Virginia wildrye)
Setaria machrostachya (plains bristlegrass) - pictures and more information
Nassella leucotricha (Texas wintergrass)
These are still not going to be urban lawn grasses. You can follow each link to our page on that grass in our Native Plant Database to learn its growing conditions, expected size and light requirements.
From our Native Plant Image Gallery:
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