Tripsacum dactyloides

Tripsacum dactyloides
Detail of staminate and pistillate flowers

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Genus: Tripsacum
Species:
T. dactyloides
Binomial name
Tripsacum dactyloides
(L.) L. 1759
Synonyms[2]
  • Coix angulatus Miller
  • Coix dactyloides L. 1753
  • Dactylodes angulatum Kuntze
  • Dactylodes dactyloides (L.) Kuntze
  • Ischaemum glabrum Walter
  • Tripsacum bravum J.R.Gray
  • Tripsacum compressum E.Fourn.
  • Tripsacum floridanum Porter ex Vasey
  • Tripsacum monostachyon Willd.

Tripsacum dactyloides, commonly called eastern gamagrass,[3] or Fakahatchee grass, is a warm-season, sod-forming bunch grass.[4] It is widespread in the Western Hemisphere, native from the eastern United States to northern South America.[5] Its natural habitat is in sunny moist areas, such as along watercourses and in wet prairies.[5] In some areas, it has adapted well to disturbed conditions.[6]

Eastern gamagrass is a widely cultivated for its use as forage.

  1. ^ "Tripsacum dactyloides". Natureserve.org. May 5, 2023. Retrieved May 13, 2023.
  2. ^ The Plant List, Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.
  3. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Tripsacum dactyloides​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  4. ^ "EASTERN GAMAGRASS" (PDF). United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Censervation Service: 1–2. 5 Feb 2002. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  5. ^ a b Tripsacum Grass Manual on the Web. Archived from the original on April 15, 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  6. ^ Alan Weakley (2015). "Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States".