Mondo Grass 'Black'

COMMON NAME: Black Mondo Grass

BOTANICAL NAME: Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens', Asparagaceae

PLANT TYPE: ORNAMENTAL GRASS

SUN EXPOSURE: Full Sun / Part Shade

BLOOM TIME: July to August

AVERAGE SIZE: .75-1'

COLD HARDINESS: USDA Zone 6

DESCRIPTION: Mondo grass or lily turf, is a tuberous-rooted, often stoloniferous, grass-like perennial of the lily family. It typically grows in slowly spreading clumps to 8-12” tall. It is native to Japan. This is a stemless plant that features narrow, linear, deep green, basal leaves (to 3/16” wide) which appear in arching, slowly-spreading clumps rising to 8-12” tall. White, 6-tepaled, bell-shaped flowers (to 1/4” long), often tinted with lilac, bloom in summer in racemes located atop leafless stems which rise above the foliage clump. Flowers are followed by globular, pea-sized, glossy dark purple berries.

Available in 1 gallon pots.