The list below includes grasses common to the Coastal Bend. Each page provides some photos, descriptions, locations, soil types, trivia, environmental and economic value. It is advisable to have reference material for grass terminology. While many of the grasses are recognizable from photos some are not.
References:
Guide to Texas Grasses by Robert B. Shaw
Grasses of South Texas by James H. Everitt, D. Lynn Drawe, Christpher R. Little, Robert I. Lonard
Grasses of the Texas Gulf Prairies and Marshes by Stephan L. Hatch, Joseph L. Schuster, D. Lynn Drawe
Marine Plants of the Texas Coast by Roy L. Lehman
Content:
- Bahiagrass; Common Bahiagrass; Pensacola Bahiagrass
- Big Bluestem
- Brownseed Paspalum; Plaited Paspalum; Brownseed Crowngrass
- Bushy Bluestem; Bushybeard Bluestem; Bushy Beardgrass
- Cattail; Tule
- Coastal Sandbur
- Curly Mesquite
- Durban Crowfoot; Crowfoot; Egyptian Crowfoot
- Giant Cane; Giant Reed
- Guinea Grass
- Gulf Cordgrass; Sacahuista; Sacahuista Grass; Coastal Sacahuista
- Gulf Muhly; Hairyawn Muhly; Longawned Hairgrass; Slender Muhly; Pink Muhly
- Gulf Cordgrass; Sacahuista; Sacahuista Grass; Coastal Sacahuista
- Hooded Windmillgrass; Hooded Fingergrass; Crowfoot
- Inland Sea Oats; Broadleaf Chasmanthium; Creek Oats; Indian Woodoats
- Key grass; Shoregrass; Salt-flat Grass
- Knotroot Bristlegrass Knotroot Foxtail
- Lemon Grass; West Indian Lemon Grass
- Little Bluestem; Coastal Bluestem
- Liverseed Grass
- Saltgrass; Inland Saltgrass; Desert Saltgrass; Coastal Saltgrass; Alkali Grass; Spiky Grass
- Sea Oats
- Sideoats Grama
- Southern Sandbur; Hedgehog Grass
- Texas Signalgrass Texas Millet; Concho; Colorado Grass
- Virginia Dropseed; Seashore Dropseed; Seashore Rushgrass
- Yellow Indian grass
- Whiplash Pappusgrass
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