This Junegrass has a native range from southern Ontario to southern British Columbia down to northern Mexico and spots in Texas up to the Great Lakes Region with a few spots in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, growing in dry soils. It is offered by some native plant nurseries as Blue Moon Nursery in Minnesota & Prairie Nursery in Wisconsin. I bought one from Prairie Nursery and planted it in the backyard prairie garden. However, it did not adapt to my good quality clay soil and it died out. It does not grow in even good clay soils. It likes full sun and either sandy or gravely soils, maybe a good silt topsoil would be alright. It is a cool season clump bunch grass that grows during cool temperature times and goes dormant during summer heat. It can self-sow in dry soil places. It bears its lustrous, silvery-green grass flower spikes in May-June. It has been recommended as a green roof plant.

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