Raymone's Plant du Jour

We are well into summer time these days and as is usually the case, these days, evapotranspiration is exceeding precipitation at the CB. All this gulf moisture that is wafting up from the gulf lately has summed to two ticks in the guage. But some few of the little wonders persist with their fornicating anyway.

Tridens flavus. Hi there. What you are gazing upon maybe in the foreground of the nearby photo is my panicle. I'm leaning over from weariness. You may notice that my reproductive parts are purple. Hence, I am widely known as purple top. All righty then. I am also known as grease grass. Crumby stole my original from a waste water line when it became evident that all the native grasses inhabiting that waste water line were in grave peril from the management practices thereon, the waste water line. My original is still habitating over yonder in the pecan orchard, but it's old now, and almost wore out. All of us T. flavus here at the CB have sprung from the seed of that original. Now we are a great multitude, of low genetic diversity, maybe.

Generally, we start to flower in late June of the Julian and continue anthesis for a good while, making us sort of odd in that we are sort of transitional cool to warm season clump grass, maybe. We are partial to partial shade.