Best in part sun or light shade in a well-drained soil with regular watering. Hardy at least to USDA Zone 6a (-10°F). An interesting larger Black Mondo Grass that we felt would be stunning in the landscape and in containers.

Ophiopogon 'Black Beard' is a selection from a breeding program using Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens, that was made by Steve Yandall of Rainbow's End Nursery in Cornwall, England. It received US Plant Patent PP22,128 in September 2011. For more information about the parent plant and the naming of the black mondo grasses, see our listing of Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'.

We received this plant from Pacific Plug and Liner Nursery in January 2009 and thought its description of having larger foliage and more vigorous growth rate would make it a great plant for containers or as an unusual colored groundcover and while but the tissue culture plants that we received never exhibited foliage much larger than the normal form of Black Mondo Grass, so we discontinued growing it in 2013. 

The information displayed on this page about Ophiopogon planiscapus Black Beard ['Yapard'] PP22,128 is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.