Re: new grass?

> I found a new grass this summer in a multiple plant container.  Of course it
> has no name with it.  The grass has a v shaped leaf with very hairy edges.  It
> is a strange color of green and nearly died during the heat of the summer but
> is now coming out.  I need a name if you can recognized this grass.  The
> leaves are about 6 inched long and the shaggy leaves are at the edges of the v
> shape leaf.

Hi Nancy,

   I was wondering if this could be one of the smaller spiderwort species
   like Tradescantia bracteata or T. tharpii.

      http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/Forbhtml/TharpSpiderwort.html
      http://hort.net/+13Mk

   When you say that it's a strange color of green, how so?  Does it lean
   towards the purples?

Chris

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