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Blue Moor Grass

Blue Moor Grass

SESLERIA caerulea

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Common Name(s)
Blue Moor Grass
Sunlight
Full Sun (6+ hrs) or Partial Sun / Shade (3-6 hrs)
Perennial Zones
5, 6, 7, 8
Watering
Let dry
Max Height
6"–1'
Max Spread
6"-12"
Garden Design Role
Edging
Bloom Season
Spring, Summer
Lifespan
Perennial
Growing Habit
Mounding, Tufted
Drought Resistance
High drought resistance
Bloom Color
Purple
Foliage Color
Green, Silver
Stem Color
Green, Silver
Genus
Sesleria
Family
Poaceae
Ship Size
4"

Blue Moor Grass is a live 4-inch grass that forms a dense evergreen tuft of blunt-tipped blades — blue-green on top, dark glossy green underneath — so the whole clump shifts color as light and wind move across it.

Sesleria caerulea is a quiet, well-mannered grass at a genuinely useful scale: low enough to line a path or a bed edge, dense enough to plant in drifts as ground cover, tough enough for a rock garden or gravel bed in sun or partial shade. In spring it lifts small egg-shaped purplish heads on short stems that fade to pale buff and stay legible into summer, and the foliage carries on through winter.

Design note: Buy a dozen and run them along a path edge. One tuft is pleasant; a ribbon of them catching low afternoon sun on those two-toned blades is the reason to grow it.

  • Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hrs) or Partial Sun / Shade (3-6 hrs)
  • Water: Keep moist
  • Mature Size: 6"–1' tall × 6"-12" wide
  • Bloom Season: Spring, Summer
  • Lifespan: Perennial
  • Hardiness Zones: 5–8

If it turns up as anything less than healthy, we replace it free.

Blue Moor Grass