Bouteloua curtipendula

This medium-tall grass mixes well in plantings with spring wildflowers, because it stays short in the spring. Birds love the ripe seeds.   Side-oats grama is a bunchy or sod-forming grass with 2-3 ft. stems in erect, wiry clumps.  A perennial, clump-forming, warm season grass.  Sun, part-shade, medium-textured, well-drained soils. Disturbed, igneous, limestone-based sands, loams, and clays.  Often found growing with Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium).