This rhizomatous perennial grass has upright foliage and is slow-spreading forming a clump. It has flat strap-like slightly glossy mid-green leaves and the soft, silvery flowers appear on an erect branched cluster in midsummer and persist into winter.

Hardiness zones 6 to 9 

Calamagrostis x acutiflora is a hybrid of Calamagrostis arundinaceae and Calamagrostis epigejos and is found throughout Europe growing in woodlands and marshlands. 

It prefers a  moist to wet soil that is modratly fertile in a open sunny to semi-shade positions and is drought tender but frost tolerant.

Feathered Reed Grass is a tufted perennial grass that is grown for its long-lasting feathery inflorescence and its tufted habit. It is planted in gardens along borders or in group plantings and as a specimen in planter boxes. It establishes from division in 1-2 years, but it is slow forming large clumps. It is suitable for cool low mountain or coastal regions. ID 1666

Calamagrostis (ka-la-mo-GROSS-tis) x acutiflora (ak-yoo-tih-FLOR-uh)

Poaceae (poh_AY-see-ee)
Grass Family