Blackwell Switchgrass

Panicum virgatum

Blackwell Switchgrass is the most common variety of Switchgrass, often used in irrigated pastures and sandhill range plantings. Switchgrass is a perennial, Native sod-forming, warm-season grass that grows 4 to 7 feet tall. A rhizomatous warm season bunchgrass; used for biomass and soil stabilization on strip mine spoil and dikes, and in buffer strips for nutrient uptake; provides pasture and hay for cattle and sheep; a source of food and cover for wildlife.