Overview and growing conditions

Tara Dropseed is a native, warm-season ornamental grass. It’s a dwarf version, being smaller and more upright than the everyday Prairie Dropseed. Tara Dropseed does best in full sun and requires very little water.

When is Tara Dropseed’s season of interest?

Tara Dropseed is a tidy looking ornamental grass all summer and fall, but it’s most dazzling season is the late summer and early fall. It develops seed heads that are a bronze color, and these last throughout the fall.

How easy is it to care for Tara Dropseed?

Overall score = 10 (extremely easy). Tara Dropseed requires almost nothing from a gardener. If planted in fall sun and dry soil, it will look great all season long. It will die back in the winter and regrow in the spring. I have found that I don’t even need to cut it back as it will die back all on its own after a frost or two. For a neater garden, you may want to cut yours back in the fall or in the spring if it lasts that long.

Many ornamental grasses need to be divided every few years as they die back in the middle, but Tara Dropseed doesn’t behave this way. So far after several years I still haven’t seen any die back in the center, but I will report back if it ever reaches that point.

One note is that it is slow-growing, so if you want to fill in an area you may need several planted close together. Or you could grow annuals or other plants in between until the dropseed fills in.

Problems with Tara Dropseed

None.