Giant Cutgrass

Zizaniopsis miliacea

native · Central Texas

Giant Cutgrass is a grass native to Central Texas that grows 9 ft tall. Blooms yellow in late summer.

Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.

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The facts

4 sources

Type: Grass
Height: About 9 ft
Bloom: Late Summer · yellow
Foliage: Deciduous or dies back in winter

Where it grows

94 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).

Can you buy it?

Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.

also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.