Tripsacum dactyloides (Eastern Gamagrass)

Tripsacum dactyloides (Eastern Gamagrass)Eastern Gamagrass is a robust, clump forming, warm season grass with coarse, arching, gray green leaf blades. Give it plenty of room to grow. Once established it is drought and occasional flood tolerant. Eastern Gamagrass prefers heavier soils and wetter conditions than most perennial, warm season grasses. It is often found in open areas on disturbed sites, along roadside ditches, and wetland margins. It is excellent for erosion control. Use in

New seedlings are easy to pull and can be controlled that way as well

dry or moist sites

Bur Oak develops large taproot and is drought-tolerant once established

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It can be used in rain gardens

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Eastern Gamagrass is a robust

but it does well as an accent shrub

purple-black to red-black cherries

part sun Bloom color Yellow-green Mature height 1