Eastern gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides L.
other common names: bullgrass, gamagrass, sesame grass
Tripsacum: from Greek, meaning to “thresh” or “rub,” probably because the fertile spike with its large seeds can be broken up so easily
Dactyloides: from Greek, meaning
“finger-like”; also from an ancient name for some grasses
Grass family: Poaceae (Gramineae)
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
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