Decorative grass??

[Geneva236]

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Here's another mystery plant. It comes back every year but leaves only. It never blooms. Any ideas what it is??

I'm in Mid-Missouri.

[cynthia_h]

There are at least four plants in each photo which could be annually returning, non-flowering plants. One of them looks like a member of the lily family, one could be a grass, one could be a shrub, one could be....

See the problem?

Please specify *which* plant you'd like ID'd, preferably with a close-up photo.

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9

[Geneva236]

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in the above pic, it is the grass in the background behind the lily/not lily plant (which is another post)

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more decorative grass....

[Kisal]

Hmmmm. I'm certainly no authority about grasses, but that doesn't look like a grass to me. Besides the fact that the leaves don't strike me as particularly grass-like, most decorative grasses -- in my experience, at least -- have something about them that adds to the landscape, such as interesting seed heads or variegated/striped leaves or a tall fountain-shaped growth habit.

The leaves of the plant in your picture almost look like they should be growing from some sort of bulb or tuber. Have you dug up any of it, to see what the root system looks like? Sometimes, bulbs and tubers stop blooming because they become too crowded. I wonder if that might be what's going on with this plant ... whatever it might be. [img]https://www.pic4ever.com/images/89.gif[/img]