Taking a sample back to the office and doing ... harvested for hay or put up as silage. As with all grasses, the quality of Eastern Gamagrass forage declines as plants mature.

Tripsacum dactyloides (Eastern gamagrass) is a warm season grass which means that it begins growing late in spring, grows through the summer and is still growing and producing seeds into the fall ...

Ornamental grasses rustle in the balmy seabreeze ... Citrus County is in Zone 9a. Eastern gamagrass, Tripsacum dactyloides, is taller, from 4 to 8 feet, more robust and hardy to Zone 4.