Looking lovely in the garden now is one of our favorites, the variegated form of our native inland sea oats, Chasmanthium latifolium ‘River Mist’. This 2010 introduction is from our friends at ItSaul Plants of Georgia. It thrives for us in the end of a pitcher plant bog, although it’s also fine in much drier sites.
Caveat emptor: like the species, it’s a rampant self-seeder, and the seedlings aren’t variegated. Best cut off the beautiful seedheads before the seeds drop, painful though that may be.
Yes, I should have mentioned that we remove the seed before they drop.
Question about these Sea Oats: are these invasive?
I used to have Sea Oats (not variegated) and they seeded all around, were coming up everywhere? Will these do the same?
Yes, but only if you don’t remove the flowers before the seed ripen. Since they are native, they can’t, by definition of the term, be invasive. They can be garden pests, if the seedheads aren’t removed in time.