Native Grasses

Fakahatchee Grass

Tripsacum dactyloides

Cold: Hardy Light: Sun / Partial Shade / Shade Salt: Fair Soil PH: Wide Moisture: Dry / Average Leaves: Evergreen

5 ft height. Accent, border, or mass plantings. Suitable for hedge, berm. Bank stabilizing.

Fakahatchee Grass, Dwarf

Tripsacum floridana

Cold: Hardy Light: Sun / Partial Shade Salt: Fair Soil PH: Wide Moisture: Dry / Average Leaves: Evergreen

4 ft height. Accent, border, or mass plantings. Smaller, thinner leaf and finer texture than "dactyloides."

Love Grass, Elliot’s

Eragrostis elliottii

Cold: Hardy Light: Sun Salt: Poor Soil PH: Wide Moisture: Dry / Average Leaves: Evergreen

2 ft height. Small, fine-leaved, silvery blue bunchgrass. Masses of tiny flower spikes create cloud-like haze above leaves.\

Best when it can re-seed and naturalize because main plant has aprox. 2 year life span.

Love Grass, Purple

Eragrostis spectabilis

Cold: Hardy Light: Sun Salt: Poor Soil PH: Wide Moisture: Dry / Average Leaves: Evergreen

2 ft height. Similar to Elliot's Love Grass but flower spikes reddish purple haze.

Muhly Grass

Muhlenbergia capillaris

Cold: Hardy Light: Sun Salt: Excellent Soil PH: Wide Moisture: Dry / Average Leaves: Evergreen

4 ft height. Maroon/pink flower spikes in fall. Grows in dryer locations and is salt tolerant.

Sea Oats

Uniola paniculata

Cold: Semi-Tender Light: Sun Salt: Excellent Soil PH: Wide Moisture: Dry Leaves: Evergreen

4 ft height. Perennial. Coastal sites. Sand binder.