Understory tree. Can be trimmed to keep sized as a shrub. Accent shrub or can be trained as a hedge.

This plant can be used as a background planting that will create a light orange haze during the late fall and winter months. Andropogon virgnicus var. glaucus (chalky bluestem) is very light blue-green in color and grows in dry sites. Background planting or as a casual tall bunching or clumping grass in meadow-like settings.

Makes a good border plant that becomes a pink haze in the fall.