| Scientific Name: | Anemanthele lessoniana |
| Common Name: | New Zealand wind grass, wind grass, pheasant grass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like), Semi-evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Dense |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Perennial border, Waterside planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Yellow, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Semi-evergreen arching clump (tussock) with culms 60-75cm long; leaves slender, blades 400-500cm long x 4-6mm wide, long tinged orange-bronze to dark red in summer (especially in dry soils); sheaths 10-15 cm long; ligule asymmetrical, 1.5mm long; florets tiny, in reddish-brown feathery panicle-like sprays. | |