Hairgrass

Marsha Finley · Post by **Marsha Finley** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:00 pm

Folks:
Are there two varieties of hairgrass? I have the variety that grows nice & straight, courtesy of an order that GG put in. I call it 70's (Straight) hairgrass. I have a second variety, courtesy of Sean, that looks kinds like the teased hair of the late 60's that I call 60's (Tangled) hairgrass. I'd like the scientific names for common reference...

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 5:11 pm

The first one is Eleocharis parvula and
the second on is Eleocharis acicularis

Marsha Finley · Post by **Marsha Finley** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:09 pm

TY! <img border="0" src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0">

JLudwig · Post by **JLudwig** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 1:03 am

[QUOTE=Ghazanfar Ghori] The first one is Eleocharis parvula and
the second on is Eleocharis acicularis[/QUOTE]

I may be wrong, but it seems Florida Aquatic Nurseries sells E. parvula as E. acicularis...(stuff in pots with rockwool)? So the pots of "Dwarf Hairgrass E. acicularis" that Aquarium Center sells are actually parvula methinks... I believe I read in Kasselmann there are 120 species in the Eleocharis genus, so who knows what we are buying!

Cheers,
Jeff Ludwig
Elkton, MD

SCMurphy · Post by **SCMurphy** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 5:43 am

There are more than 150 species of hairgrass found in North America.

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