General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Plant Height: 12-16 inches
Plant Spread: 8-12 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flower Color: Green
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Pollinators: Wind

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Common names
  • Golden Millet Grass
  • Bowles Golden Grass
  • Golden Wood Millet

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Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 4000-01-13
Milium effusum 'Aureum'
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2013-05-22
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, near Morpeth, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2013-06-05
With English bluebells
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2009-05-27
Location: The garden at Sanabria
Date: 2014-09-05
2014 seed after five weeks, never grown it before from seed, so n
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-05-10
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2015-05-16
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Comments:
  • Posted by kniphofia (Northumberland, UK) on May 16, 2021 9:47 AM concerning plant:
    A really lovely semi evergreen perennial grass with chartreuse leaves which looks lovely among shady plants. It thrives in partial shade and will seed around. Produces panicles of yellow flowers in summer. RHS AGM.

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