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 …

Oct 10, 2010 · Purpletop tridens occurs from New Hampshire to Florida, westward to the eastern half of Texas, then north to Nebraska and Wisconsin (Hitchcock and Chase, 1950; Diggs et …

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 …

Perennial warm-season grass native to the East Coast and Southern Plains of the United States. It is a bunchgrass that when planted en masse puts a stunning reddish-purple top onto fields …

Purpletop is a perennial, warm season grass that is consumed by all grazing livestock. It is well adapted to shallow, droughty, infertile soil and provides forage in the summer and on sites …

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 …

Purpletop Tridens flavus cupreus Grass family (Poaceae) Description: This perennial grass is about 3-5' tall and unbranched; plants can occur in tufts or as scattered individuals. The culm …

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 …

Purpletop is primarily a weed of hay fields, pastures, abandoned fields, and roadsides that is found from New Hampshire south to Florida. Leaves are somewhat flattened and appear …

A perennial with short, thick rhizomes that is most noticeable from August through October when these plants reach 4 or 5 feet in height and produce dark purple panicles. Leaves are …