Blue wildrye is a cool-season native bunchgrass with distinctive blue-green foliage and tall, slender seed heads that sway in the breeze. Found in moist to dry open forest, meadows, and disturbed sites throughout the interior, it’s a fast-establishing, adaptable grass that’s widely used in restoration and erosion-control plantings. Its foliage and seed provide cover and food for wildlife, and as a native grass it’s a larval host for several skipper butterflies. A versatile, easy-going addition to a naturalized meadow or grass planting.