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What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86571 September 14th, 2006 at 03:55 AM
Joined: May 2004 South Dakota M ms8miranda OP Member
OP ms8miranda Member M Joined: May 2004 South Dakota	I live in South Dakota. I noticed an unusual grass growing in my yard this year. The grass grows from one spot and has a pattern on one side of the blades. The blades are kind of triangular shaped. Does anyone know what this is? (Check out the pict below) Unusual Grass Picture

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Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86572 September 14th, 2006 at 04:32 AM
Joined: Aug 2002 Knoxville, TN A alankhart Member
alankhart Member A Joined: Aug 2002 Knoxville, TN	Sorta looks like a type of yucca?

Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86573 September 14th, 2006 at 04:34 AM
Joined: Jun 2005 Ontario netty Member
netty Member Joined: Jun 2005 Ontario	My red hot poker has triangular shaped leaves...could it be one of those?

Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86574 September 14th, 2006 at 06:01 AM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	i agree with alan. looks like it might be a yucca. funny that it showed up out of nowhere - pretty big for first year growth. maybe you didn't notice it last year? do you see this plant growing anywhere else in the general vicinity (i'm thinking the seeds were in bird droppings)? or did you plant something near where this appeared (it may have been in the soil of the other plant)? or, it might not be yucca...it may be some type of grass...i'm not familiar with your area and what is native there.

Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86575 September 14th, 2006 at 06:27 PM
Joined: Apr 2004 Jacksonville,Florida G~mom The Dingbat's Buddy
G~mom The Dingbat's Buddy Joined: Apr 2004 Jacksonville,Florida	It does somewhat resemble a yucca,but I just don't think it is. What is the texture of the plant? Are the leaves hard or soft? Are the edges of the leaves serrated? G~Mom

Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86576 September 16th, 2006 at 07:02 AM
Joined: May 2004 South Dakota M ms8miranda OP Member
OP ms8miranda Member M Joined: May 2004 South Dakota	The leaves (or blades) are soft so I'm sure it's not Yucca. The leaves aren't serrated. It's not really that big - I just took a real close-up pict of it. I just went outside and measured one of the blades (leaves) and it was 17-1/2 inches long. I saw a couple of them by the house just starting to come up this spring and thought they were quack grass and sprayed them. Then I noticed the 'blades' all grew from one spot so when I saw one popping up among my flowers, I let it grow.

Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86577 September 17th, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Joined: May 2005 Nashville, TN Thornius The Bird Man
Thornius The Bird Man Joined: May 2005 Nashville, TN	NO TIME TO TELL YOU, ms8. RUN GET OUT OF THERE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!! THAT IS THE VERY DANGEROUS Y AAAAARrrrghhhh....... (Thorn is overcome by the strange plants spores)

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Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86578 September 18th, 2006 at 09:55 AM
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Carly Member Joined: Jul 2004 Toronto, Canada	Why? What's it gonna' do? Eat her for lunch if she doesn't feed it?

Re: What Kind of Grass Is This??? Or is it something else altogether? #86579 September 18th, 2006 at 09:06 PM
Joined: Jan 2005 Rhinebeck, NY USA M margaret e. pell Member
margaret e. pell Member M Joined: Jan 2005 Rhinebeck, NY USA	It looks like salsify to me. If you break the tip off a leaf, does it have white, milky sap like a dandilion? If yes, it's salsify.

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