| Tripsacum dactyloides | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Liliopsida |
| Order: | Cyperales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Tribe: | Maydeae |
| Genus: | Tripsacum |
| Species: | T. dactyloides |
| Binomial name | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Coix angulatus Miller nom. illegit. |
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Tripsacum dactyloides (common names Gama Grass and Eastern Gamagrass) is a prairie grass of the Great Plains. Gama Grass is found as far northwest as Nebraska.
Tripsacum dactyloides is also perennial bunchgrass that grows wild in the eastern United States in USDA zones 4—9 [1].
Hybrids have been made between Zea mays and the octoploid (2n=72) form of T. dactyloides[2]