''Puccinellia distans'' is a species of
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...
known by the common names weeping alkaligrass and European alkali grass. It is native to Europe and it is present in most of North America, where it is perhaps an
introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived ther ...
. It grows in moist habitat, usually in areas with
saline soils, such as the edges of
salted roads.
Grass Manual Treatment
It is a perennial herb producing hollow stems up to 40 to 60 centimeters in maximum height. The inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
is a spreading array of branches, the lower ones reflexed. The branches bear several rough-haired spikelets containing flowers.
Publications
* Dony, C. M. (1979) ''Puccinellia distans'' (reflexed saltmarsh-grass) in Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Naturalist 33 68–69.
References
External links
Jepson Manual TreatmentWashington Burke MuseumGLANSIS Species Fact Sheet
distans
Halophytes
Grasses of Europe
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