Description: English: Triplasis purpurea (Walter) Chapm. - purple sandgrass. Date: 1899. Source:
Hitchcock-Chase Collection of Grass Drawings, courtesy of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., on indefinite loan from the Smithsonian Institution. / for Frank Lamson-Scribner, American grasses (illustrated). Bull. Div. Agrostol. U.S.D.A. 17: 213. 1899. Fig. 509. Author: Albert Spear Hitchcock (1865–1935), Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963), A. H. Baldwin, (Miss) M. D. Baker, Mary Wright Gill, Frank Lamson-Scribner, W. R. Scholl, Theodore Holm, Leta Hughey, Benjamin Y. Morrison, Mrs. George M. Mullett, Frances Carnes Weintraub, Edna May Whitehorn, or possibly another illustrator.
