Ornamental grasses can add texture to a planting design, and they come in a variety of types with distinct characteristics. Fescue is a fine-textured grass that forms dense tufts of blue-green or silver-gray foliage, and it is drought-tolerant, low-maintenance, and evergreen. Blue oat grass is another fine-textured grass that forms clumps of blue-gray foliage with silvery flower spikes, while feather reed grass has upright clumps of green foliage with feathery flower plumes that turn tan in fall. Switchgrass is a medium-textured grass with upright clumps of green or blue-green foliage and airy flower panicles that turn golden in fall. Fountain grass has arching clumps of green or purple foliage with fluffy flower spikes that turn brown in fall. Little bluestem has upright clumps of blue-green foliage that turn red, orange, or purple in fall. Miscanthus is a coarse-textured grass with large clumps of green, variegated, or striped foliage and plume-like flower heads that turn silver in fall. Pampas grass has huge clumps of green or silver foliage with tall flower stalks that bear fluffy white or pink plumes. Finally, cordyline is a coarse-textured grass-like plant with woody stems and sword-shaped leaves ranging from green to red, purple, or variegated. All these ornamental grasses are drought-tolerant and low-maintenance, and they can be used as groundcovers, edgings, mass plantings, specimens, borders, container plants, screens, backdrops, focal points, meadows, prairies, or wildlife habitats in sunny or partly shaded areas.