Arkansas Forages Database
Purpletop
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About Purpletop
- Native warm-season perennial grass.
- Often is weedy and invades other forage stands that have become weak.
- Readily identified in late summer by purple-colored seedhead.
- Also called Greasegrass due to oily feel of seedhead.