Tripsacum dactyloides
Fakahatchee Grass is a large Florida-native ornamental grass with dense, clumping foliage that can reach 4’-6’. It does well in full sun to partial shade with average to moist soil. Perfect for rain gardens, borders, and erosion control, this grass produces graceful, spiky foliage and unique, showy flower spikes. The foliage provides shelter for birds and small mammals, the seeds are a food source for many birds, and the foliage is a larval host for several Skipper butterflies.
Tripsacum dactyloides
Fakahatchee Grass is a large Florida-native ornamental grass with dense, clumping foliage that can reach 4’-6’. It does well in full sun to partial shade with average to moist soil. Perfect for rain gardens, borders, and erosion control, this grass produces graceful, spiky foliage and unique, showy flower spikes. The foliage provides shelter for birds and small mammals, the seeds are a food source for many birds, and the foliage is a larval host for several Skipper butterflies.
Evergreen, clumping, super-hardy, adaptable, fast-growing
Full sun to shade, 5 ft, dry to moist soils
Thick, bushy appearance, add to the landscape for texture and as a shrub substitute.
Well-suited for growing along pond edges, but also very drought tolerant.
Excellent under oak trees.
