It's not hard to spot, as an invasive plant, along Interstate 26 from Greenville, SC to Asheville, NC and up the Blue Ridge Escarpment on Highway 25. It's colonized the roadsides along those thoroughfares and is now moving out to disturbed old field habitat beyond.
It's a colonizer, to be sure. My gardening companion and I saw it in Northern Vietnam, where it's native, flourishing on disturbed slopes.
Supposedly, our plants in the Garden were sterile cultivars, but here are a couple of plants that have become established in the powerline corridor.
So, we're still planting it as an 'ornamental grass' -- hmm, what's out of place here?
