Eastern Gamagrass

In a managed garden, gamagrass can be trimmed back at the end of winter.



Hedge, foundation planting, individual large grass clump, background screen for a flower garden. Rain garden or bioswale.

Tolerant of occasional/brief inundation such as can occur in storm surges.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Can die back and become messy during cold winters, but new growth covers it in the spring.

Even when trimmed occasionally, Gama Grass will provide cover for small mammals, birds, and reptiles. Deer eat the seeds.

Wet bogs, roadsides, ditches, wet hammocks, river banks, low thickets, pine woods, open swamps, open habitats, flatwoods, sandhill, scrub. Also cultivated.

• Showy flowers, Showy fruits
• Larval host for three-spotted skipper (Cymaenes tripunctus), clouded skipper (Lerema accius) and Byssusskipper (Problema byssus) (Minno and Minno, 1999).