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Tripsacum floridanum
Also called Gama Grass, Eastern Gama Grass, Eastern Gamagrass, Eastern Gamma Grass, Eastern Mock Grama, Fakahatchee Grass, Northern Gamagrass
Florida gamagrass is a clump-forming perennial grass native to Florida and Cuba, growing in moist pine woods and near wetlands. It is grown mainly as an ornamental and is closely related to maize.
Tripsacum floridanum is a species of grass in the family Poaceae known by the common name Florida gamagrass. It is native to Cuba and the US state of Florida.
This grass grows from a short, thick rhizome and produces stems up to a meter tall. It may produce one stem or a small clump of stems. The leaves are up to 60 centimeters long and 1 to 15 millimeters wide. The inflorescence contains both male and female spikelets.
Tripsacum australe · Eastern gamagrass · Mexican gamagrass · Grama Guatemala · Gamagrass
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
