Purple Top is a perennial warm-season grass that grows 3-5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. It has a rich hue to its foliage as it develops each spring. Shortly after the foliage matures, the flower spikes …

A perennial, warm-season grass that puts a stunning purple top onto fields and meadows from mid-summer to early autumn. This species is a host plant for many butterflies and moths, and …

Purpletop is a perennial bunchgrass native to Eastern North America. Scientifically known as Tridens flavus, it grows 3-5′ tall in full sun and medium to dry soils. Important to wildlife, it is a …

Oct 10, 2010 · Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. General: Purpletop tridens is a native, perennial bunchgrass with culms 2 to 6 feet tall arising from a rhizomatous crown (Fig. 1). Leaves are …

Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc., purpletop, is a bunchgrass with erect tufted culms. It is 35 to 75 inches tall. Leaf blades are flat, often less than 1/2 inch wide and 10 to 27 inches long, lax, smooth, …

Tridens flavus, known as purpletop, purpletop tridens, tall redtop, greasy grass, and grease grass, [1] [2] [3] is a large, robust perennial bunchgrass. The seeds are purple, giving the grass its …

see Dasyochloa Diplachne Erioneuron. Tridens avenaceus - Erioneuron avenaceum Tridens capensis - Diplachne fusca Tridens duartei - Diplachne fusca subsp. uninervia Tridens …

Meadows, old fields, open woods, roadsides; tolerates low quality roadside and field soils. Warm season bunchgrass; adds late season color to native landscapes; used for soil stabilization; …

Purpletop tridens is found in fields, roadsides and open woodlands. Although native to New England, some populations are introduced, such as those in Vermont railyards. This grass …

Tridens strictus, commonly called longspike tridens, is a densely tufted, Missouri native grass which occurs in both moist and dry soils on open ground, prairies, fields, waste areas, ditches …