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Raise Your Grass Game. Strike Gold! Sorghastrum nutans Golden Sunset™ PPAF

Raise Your Grass Game. Strike Gold! Sorghastrum nutans Golden Sunset™ PPAF

Posted by John Friel on Oct 24th 2022

Looking to enhance your ornamental grass selection? Native to the American prairie, Sorghastrum makes itself at home in any sunny border.


Golden Sunset is a warm-season grass that forms neat clumps of wide, olive-green blades. Shapely and graceful, it has an upright/arching habit. Full, rich golden plumes rise to an impressive, but not overwhelming, height. 

Golden Sunset™ is a warm-season grass that forms neat clumps of wide, olive-green blades. Shapely and graceful, it has an upright/arching habit. Full, rich golden plumes rise to an impressive, but not overwhelming, height.

Golden Sunset was selected at the world-famous Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, where the winters are long and hard. Deep-rooted and drought-tolerant, it’s adaptable to a wide range of soil types. You can spec this one with confidence that it’ll handle your region’s conditions. 

Sorghastrum nutans Golden Sunset™ in our Lancaster, PA trial gardens.

Hardy in USDA Zones 3 – 10. 

Height 4 – 5’ in flower.


Go for the gold. Get Golden Sunset in fast-finishing, easy-handling 38-cell trays from Emerald Coast Growers – your easy choice!

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