Tripsacum dactyloides
Eastern gama grass, Fakahatchee grass

This is another large native clumping wetland grass, and is believed to be one of the dominant grassland plants of the southeast U.S. before human settlement. It has an atypical inflorescence that makes it easier to identify than most grassses, and which shows it to be closely related to corn. Eastern gama grass is sold in nurseries for home use.


Eastern gama grass is a very large grass. stems clump-forming, to 6 ft. tall; leaf blades large, flat, smooth, to 2 1/2 ft. long, to 1 in. wide; sheaths smooth; inflorescences usually 2-3, narrow cylindrical, on stem tips, 4-11 in. long; spikelets single, embedded on opposite sides at each joint of axis

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