Yellow Bluestem

Yellow Bluestem, King Ranch Bluestem

Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng.

(formerly Andropogon ischaemum)

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲ ▼ mature, flowering plants

▲ inflorescence

▲ basal foliage

Yellow Bluestem:

warm-season perennial grass with spreading, mostly bunch-type growth habit
one of the old-world bluestems (similar to Caucasian Bluestem)
has thin, light green, rolled leaves with long hairs at base of leaf blades
inflorescences is a tan to purplish digitate panicle on top of slender, nearly leafless culm
not common, but will spread once established in a lawn