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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Distichlis spicata
Phenology Observation Sheet for Grasses

COMMON NAME

Saltgrass

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Distichlis spicata

Plant family

Grass (Poaceae)

Plant group

Grasses

Most frequently a coastal species, saltgrass grows at Quivira in areas where the salinity is fairly high. Male and female flowers are on separate plants.
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Identification hints

Most frequently a coastal species, saltgrass grows at Quivira in areas where the salinity is fairly high. Male and female flowers are on separate plants.
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Saltgrass is an important food source for the endangered Florida salt marsh vole as well as a larval food source for the Wandering Skipper butterfly. The leaves of saltgrass are said to be "two-ranked", meaning that they appear in essentially two rows along the stem.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Alabama , Arizona , California , Colorado , Connecticut , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Hawaii , Iowa , Idaho , Illinois , Kansas , Louisiana , Massachusetts , Maryland , Maine , Minnesota , Missouri , Mississippi , Montana , North Carolina , North Dakota , Nebraska , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New Mexico , Nevada , New York , Ohio , Oklahoma , Oregon , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , South Dakota , Texas , Utah , Virginia , Washington , Wisconsin , Wyoming
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