The following plants come from habitats that are seasonally or permanently wet, yet they can thrive in drier upland regions too. They are also tolerant of different soil types and textures.
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This article uncovers a variety of plants that not only mimic the appearance of corn, but also look eye-catching with their tall stalks of lush, green leaves, making them a great addition in garden and pots!
Botanical Name: Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum is a type of cereal crop, cultivated for for animal feed. Its visual similarity to corn comes from its tall growth habit, and kind of similar foliage.
Botanical Name: Arundo donax
The giant reed has a towering height and dense clumps. Superficially, it looks like corn from a distance, but notice closely and the absence of ears is prominent!
Botanical Name: Sorghum halepense
This plant looks like a young corn during its initial growth staged. Its narrower, lance-like leaves lack the distinctive ears and kernels.
Botanical Name: Saccharum officinarum
The upright growth pattern of sugar cane and segmented stalks resemble corn visually. However, it does not produce ears and kernels, typical of corn.
Botanical Name: Various genera
Certain bamboo species have a resemblance to the corn’s thick upright culms and clumping habit. You can differentiate the plant easily, though!
Botanical Name: Cortaderia selloana
With its towering plumes and clump-forming growth, pampas grass vaguely resembles corn from a distance. However, the absence of broad, flat blades distinguishes it.
Botanical Name: Zizania spp.
Wild rice produces elongated seed heads, reminiscent of corn ears. However, its smaller elongated seeds and less dense kernels makes it stand out.
Botanical Name: Various genera
Millets are a group of small-seeded grasses grown as cereal crops, or animal forage. Some millets resemble corn, but lack its characteristic ears and kernels.
Botanical Name: Zea spp.
Teosinte is the wild ancestor of modern corn,
The following plants come from habitats that are seasonally or permanently wet, yet they can thrive in drier upland regions too. They are also tolerant of different soil types and textures.
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Irvin Etienne is the curator of herbaceous plants and seasonal garden design at Newfields, a 152-acre campus with art galleries, performance spaces, world-class public gardens, and a nature park in Indianapolis. Irvin has been a frequent contributor to Fine Gardening, sharing his horticultural expertise through informative articles like A Bright Idea for Spring Containers, Big and Bold Plants for the Back of the Border, and Bring It In!, a primer on overwintering all kinds of tropical plants. In this episode he delves into the path that brought him to horticulture, the lessons learned from decades of gardening in public, and some of the (many, many) plants that earn their keep in his home garden.
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