The bronzy-colored seed heads last from midsummer into the ... spectacular silver flowers resembling hands with fingers. Porcupine grass has broad yellow stripes across the wide leaves.

The late-summer plumes age to cream. `Cosmopolitan' is a less floppy Japanese silver grass. Miscanthus sinensis var. strictus, or porcupine grass, is green with yellow bandings. Mature height is 6 ...