SILSBEE, TX *some type of grass?*

I live in Silsbee Texas and I have these little patches of green things that look like sea urchins, they turn orange after a day or so, it is NOT the frost that is turning them orange, they are like that during the fall also and this is Southeast Texas we are talking about... it doesnt get THAT cold! :)
If anyone could PLEASE help me identify this plant I would GREATLY appreciate it! :)

Thanks ahead of time!

 

Welcome to the Forum, Cierra.

Your plant makes me think bromeliad. ???

 

Aletris?

 

It does kind of look like a bromeliad, but I am not aware of any that grow in Texas. You say they turn orange after a day or so - of what? Do they stay green all growing season and turn orange in the fall/winter and die back and come again the next year?

 

http://www.bromeliadsocietyhouston.org/html/tillandsia.html

According to this information (see end of paragraph 3) three species of Tillandsia are native to Texas.

 

Okay, yes, but I was thinking of anything that might look like the photo - I don't know of any Tillandsias that look like that. Looks more like a Guzmania than a Tillandsia. Any bromeliads other than Tillandsias do not grow outside of south Florida in the U.S., as far as I know. Anyway, I think this plant is a perennial of some sort. Maybe paion got it right, but I don't know that genus.

 

Was not implying that the poster's plant is or was a Tillandsia.

 

I still think it's an Aletris, the two species occuring in TX are A. aurea and A. farinosa.

 

You seemed to think it was a bromeliad, though, so just following that line.

 

I'm not expert, but I would agree with A. aurea.

 

All Tillandsia are bromeliads, but not all bromeliads are Tillandsia.

 

Exactly.