Alternate name: Eastern Gamagrass

Family: Poaceae, Grass view all from this family

Description Usually 2-3 ft. in height, Eastern Mock Grama can grow 10 ft. tall. It is interesting primarily for its terminal inflorescences which have separate male and female flowers. Stigmas are purple; stamens orange. The plant is a perennial.

Habitat Borders of salt marshes; stream banks; mesic, upland, tallgrass prairies.

Range Massachusetts to Michigana and Nebraska, south to Florida, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Discussion Deer eat the hard, yellow seeds of this plant.