What Kind if Grass?

[SwampCat]

I live in SW Arkansas. This grass attains a height of about ten inches. It grows in full sun or full shade - doesnt matter. It can withstand months of flooding during the growing season and it doesnt kill it. It grows during two month long summer drought periods. It is tough as a boot. Makes a great grass on trails because it really holds the soil but is not so tall as to get in the way. Only grows in the bottoms that I know of.

Any idea what it is? Pics show it growing in full shade, full sun, and close up. Rancher said cows only eat it in spring.

 

[trampledbyturtles]

When you break off a piece, is the stem/leaf flat or triangle shaped?

 

[SwampCat]

When you break off a piece, is the stem/leaf flat or triangle shaped?

It is flat - not a sedge.

Ranchers call it "water grass".

 

[FarmerDan]

Hard to tell without having it in hand. Just based on its prevalence everywhere I guess of Tall Fescue is good as any.

http://www.msuturfweeds.net/details/_/tall_fescue_43/

 

[SwampCat]

It is a native, bottomland, grass. I am killing fescue out of all my upland pastures. This stuff grows through thousands of acres of hardwood bottomlands.

 

[Native Hunter]

Grasses are tough to do with pictures like that. I will take a stab and say it is one of the "Beak Grasses." Everything you say fits some of those species. An example of one is shown in the link below I found for you. The picture there looks similar to your grass.

http://www.spencenursery.com/plants/beak_grass_diarrhena_obovata_(diarrhena_americana).php