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Touchable Plants

By Susan Morgan, HGTV.com
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Mexican Feather Grass
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Due to their fine texture, many ornamental grasses are touchable plants. But there's one that truly stands out as a "must-touch" grass--Stipa tenuissima, with its threadlike blades that feel like hair. You can't help but run your fingers through this grass whenever you pass it in the garden.

Other touchable grasses and grass-like plants:

  • Fountain grass (Pennisetum)
  • Sedge (Carex)
  • Love grass (Eragrostis
  • Feather reed grass (Calamagrostis)
  • Cat-tail (Typha)
  • Horsetail (Equisetum)
  • Papyrus (Cyperus)
  • Hair grass (Deschampsia)


    • Chenille Plant

    Lotus

    Passion Flower

    Blood Lily

    Jerusalem Sage


    Verbascum

    Mexican Feather Grass

    Magnolia

    Coast Silk-tassel

    Birchbark Cherry


    Agave

    Other touchables

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