Restio festuciformis - Restio / Ornamental Grass - Indigenous grass - 10 Seeds Spring Flower displaying their blooms in shades

displaying their blooms in shades of orange

upright rosettes of leaves

dense globose clusters of pink/white flowers in Winter-Spring

With large cream and pinkish flowers in spring this plant is suited to planting in Autumn and grows to 20cm

and good populations of this species continue to survive on the southern Peninsula especially at Silvermine and at Cape Point

Restio festuciformis - Restio / Ornamental Grass - Indigenous grass - 10 Seeds Spring Flower displaying their blooms in shadesThis is a very ornamental small plant, rather unusual for a restio in that it does not look like a reed, but much more like an attractive grass species. The plants have a soft tufted look, bright green during the vegetative phase and a shiny golden green during the flowering and seeding phase. The tufted plants are about 50 cm high with very fine, slightly branched stems. For the non botanist there is very little difference between the male and female