Elegia Capensis Horsetail Restio

Elegia Capensis Horsetail Restio thrives in full sun and prefers moist, well-drained, moderately fertile, neutral to acid, loamy, sandy soil. Horsetail Restio has a clump-forming, erect, spreading growth habit and bears yellow to golden-brown flower spikelets in spring. Ideal for container plantings, city, and coastal landscapes. It displays large clumps of reed-like, thick, dark green stems with a papery sheath at each node surrounding a whorl of needle-like, long branches of yellow-green. The plant bears winged, small, nut-like fruits.