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(Pennisetum ‘Hameln’)
A bunch grass with fine, wheat-like inflorescences that wave in the breeze. Two to three feet tall. Fountain grass is one of the most drought-tolerant and useful landscape plants for North Texas—remember, we live in a grassland! A smaller variety, ‘Little Bunny,’ has also proven very tough; ‘Moudry’ tends to freeze in some of our harder winters. The flower show for ‘Hameln’ can easily be spectacular for six months. Cut back the straw-colored foliage when you tire of it in late winter (I usually do it on the first of March).

(Imperata cylindrica)
Sun shining through the bright red tips on this grass is truly dazzling. Growing one to two feet tall, this grass will brighten a sunny or partly shady area. Spreads both by seed and underground rhizomes. Note: this grass is banned in southern states and Arkansas as an invasive; best to plant in pots or in a contained area. (Photo: Linda Steider of Steider Studios)

(Chasmanthium latifolium)
One of the few native grasses that loves the shade. Inland sea oats has a beautiful flat wheat-like inflorescence in the late summer, turning straw colored in the fall and persisting through the winter. Grows about 3′ tall and will seed around to fill an area; don’t water or put it in rich soil unless you want a lot of it. Rustles in the breeze, making you feel cooler in the summer.

(Muehlenbergia capillaris)
A fine-textured, blue-green native clumping grass that bursts into cotton-candy pink blooms in the fall. It looks like a pink cloud waving in the breeze. Fabulous with pink Gregg salvia or as a textural contrast to other blue-green plants like agaves, Arizona cypress or Texas sage. Grows to 2-1/2 feet tall plus the inflorescence. Very drought tolerant.