ornamental grass-- long shot

[Ken Kinman]

John,
      Seems to be two species of this ornamental grass:
  Tripsacum dactyloides (fhakahatchee)
  Tripsacum floridanum (dwarf fhakahatchee)
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>From: John Nelson <nelson at BIOL.SC.EDU>
>Reply-To: John Nelson <nelson at BIOL.SC.EDU>
>To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
>Subject: ornamental grass-- long shot
>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:30:11 -0500
>
>TH 1 Nov 1018h
>
>Friends:
>
>         We have been asked to identify an ornamental grass which
>apparently has
>a trade name (cultivar name?) something like
>
>         "Fhakahatchoe" or "--hatchee"
>
>         I have not seen the grass, but am told that it is some sort of a
>plume
>grass, very attractive.
>
>         Anybody have a clue?
>
>         Thanks JOHN
>--
>John B. Nelson
>A. C. Moore Herbarium
>Department of Biological Sciences
>University of South Carolina
>Columbia SC 29208
>
>ph 803-777-8196
>fax 803-777-4002
>nelson at sc.edu
>
>Non totum difficile est, sed nihil facile.


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