| Scientific Name: | Schizachyrium scoparium |
| Common Name: | bluestem grass, little bluestem |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Open, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Dried flower or fruit, Erosion control, Fall interest, Group or mass planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), White, Silver, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves long, linear, flat, about 4mm wide, turning orange to bronze in fall; spikelets in rows on branched stems above the foliage in August, purplish-bronze. | |