Switch Grass

Panicum virgatum
 
Switch Grass is attractive late summer to fall, with emerging, purple cloud-like seed heads that sport tiny attractive flowers, to dried golden foliage in fall. Consider not cutting Switch Grass back late fall in your garden. It provides winter cover for small mammals and land birds. Birds will also feed on the seeds.
 
Height - 4ft
Light - Full Sun to Partial 
Soil Moisture - Loam, Sandy Loam
Bloom Colour - N/A
Bloom Time - July, August, September
Invites - Birds, Butterflies
Host Plant for - Tawny-edge Skipper, Delaware Skipper
Companion Plant Idea’s - Grey headed Coneflower, Joe Pye Weed, Black-Eyed Susan, False Sunflower