Location: Rain Garden

Names:

• Common Name: Eastern Gamagrass
• Botanical Name: Tripsacum dactyloides
• AKA: Fakahatchee Grass

Description: Usually 2-3 ft. in height, eastern mock grama can grow 10 ft. tall. It is interesting primarily for its terminal inflorescences which have separate male and female flowers. Stigmas are purple; stamens orange. The plant is a perennial.

Best Growing Conditions: Full Sun, Partial Shade; Medium Water Demand; Moist Soil; Sandy Loam or Clay Loam

Landscape Use: Border - Edge, Border - Mixed, Erosion Control, Focal Point/Specimen Plant, Screen - Physical (e.g., barriers), Screen - Visual

Wildlife Value: Birds