Puccinellia
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- "Alkali grass" redirects here. This is also (improperly) used for the Mountain Deathcamas (Anticlea elegans) which is not a grass.
Puccinellia is a genus of grasses
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
which are known as alkali grass. These grasses grow in wet environments, often in saline
Saline water
Saline water is a general term for water that contains a significant concentration of dissolved salts . The concentration is usually expressed in parts per million of salt....
or alkali
Alkali
In chemistry, an alkali is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal element. Some authors also define an alkali as a base that dissolves in water. A solution of a soluble base has a pH greater than 7. The adjective alkaline is commonly used in English as a synonym for base,...
ne conditions. They are native to temperate to Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Selected species
Puccinellia agrostidea Sorensen Bent alkali grass or Tundra alkali grass
Puccinellia ambigua Sorensen - Alberta alkali grass
Puccinellia americana Sorensen - American alkali grass
Puccinellia andersonii Swallen - Anderson's alkali grass
Puccinellia angustata (R.Br.) Rand & Redf. - Narrow alkali grass
Puccinellia arctica (Hook.) Fern. & Weath. - Arctic alkali grass
Puccinellia bruggemannii Sorensen - Prince Patrick alkali grass
Puccinellia convoluta (Hornem.) Hayek -
Puccinellia deschampsioides Sorensen - Polar alkali grass
Puccinellia distans
Puccinellia distans
Puccinellia distans is a species of grass known by the common names Weeping alkali grass 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. It grows in moist habitat, usually in areas with saline soils, such as...
(Jacq.) Parl. - Spreading alkali grass, Weeping alkali grass or Reflexed saltmarsh-grass
Puccinellia fasciculata (Torr.) E.P.Bicknell - Torrey alkali grass or Borrer's saltmarsh-grass
Puccinellia ferndalii (A.Hitchc.) E.G.Voss -
Puccinellia festuciformis (Host) Parl. -
Puccinellia groenlandica Sorensen - Greenland alkali grass
Puccinellia howellii J.I.Davis - Howell's alkali grass
Puccinellia hultenii Swallen - Hulten's alkali grass
Puccinellia interior Sorensen - Interior alkali grass
Puccinellia kamtschatica Holmb. - Alaska alkali grass
Puccinellia kurilensis (Takeda) Honda - Dwarf alkali grass
Puccinellia langeana (Berlin) T.J.Sorensen ex Hultén -
Puccinellia laurentiana Fern. & Weath. - Tracadigash Mountain alkali grass
Puccinellia lemmonii
Puccinellia lemmonii
Puccinellia lemmonii is a species of grass known by the common name Lemmon's alkali grass. It is native to western North America, particularly the northwestern United States, where it grows in moist, saline soils....
(Vasey) Scribn. - Lemmon's alkali grass
Puccinellia limosa (Schur) Holmb. -
Puccinellia lucida Fern. & Weath. - Shining alkali grass
Puccinellia macquariensis
Puccinellia macquariensis
Puccinellia macquariensis is a species of salt-tolerant, perennial, tufted grass in the Poaceae family. It is endemic to Australia’s subantarctic Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean, though very closely related to P. chathamica of New Zealand’s southern offshore islands...
(Cheeseman) Allan & Jansen
Puccinellia macra Fern. & Weath. - Bonaventure Island alkali grass
Puccinellia maritima
Puccinellia maritima
Puccinellia maritima is a species of grass known by the common names including seaside alkali grass, common saltmarsh-grass or sea poa grass. It is native to Western Europe and it is present in most of North East North America. It grows in moist, usually saline soils. It can reach a height of...
(Huds.) Parl. - Seaside alkali grass or Common saltmarsh-grass
Puccinellia nutkaensis
Puccinellia nutkaensis
Puccinellia nutkaensis is a species of grass known by the common names Nootka alkali grass and Alaska alkali grass. It is native to North America from Alaska across northern Canada to Greenland and Nova Scotia, and down the west coast of the United States to the Central Coast of...
(J.Presl) Fern. & Weath. - Nootka alkali grass
Puccinellia nuttalliana
Puccinellia nuttalliana
Puccinellia nuttalliana is a species of grass known by the common name Nuttall's alkali grass. It is native to North America, where it is widespread from Alaska east throughout Canada to Greenland, and common in the western and central United States...
(J.A.Schultes) A.S.Hitchc. - Nuttall's alkali grass
Puccinellia parishii
Puccinellia parishii
Puccinellia parishii is an uncommon species of grass known by the common names bog alkali grass and Parish's alkali grass. It is native to the western United States, where it is known from a few locations in Arizona and New Mexico, and one occurrence each in California and Colorado.It grows in wet...
A.S.Hitchc. - Bog alkali grass or Parish's alkali grass
Puccinellia phryganodes (Trin.) Scribn. & Merr. - Creeping alkali grass
Puccinellia poacea Sorensen - Floodplain alkali grass
Puccinellia porsildii Sorensen - Porsild's alkali grass
Puccinellia pumila
Puccinellia pumila
Puccinellia pumila is a species of grass known by the common names smooth alkali grass and dwarf alkali grass. It is native to North America where it grows along the coastline in the northern latitudes, from Alaska across Arctic northern Canada to Greenland. It occurs on the coast of the Pacific...
(Vasey) A.S.Hitchc. - Dwarf alkali grass
Puccinellia pungens (Pau) Paunero -
Puccinellia rosenkrantzii Sorensen - Rosenkrantz's alkali grass
Puccinellia rupestris (With.) Fern. & Weath. - British alkali grass or Stiff saltmarsh-grass
Puccinellia simplex
Puccinellia simplex
Puccinellia simplex is a species of grass known by the common names western alkali grass and California alkali grass. It is native to California, where it grows in mineral springs and other moist habitat with saline soils in the Central Valley, Mojave Desert, and other areas. It is also known from...
Scribn. - California alkali grass
Puccinellia sublaevis (Holmb.) Tzvelev - Smooth alkali grass
Puccinellia tenella Holmb. ex Porsild - Tundra alkali grass
Puccinellia tenuiflora (Griesb.) Scribn. & Merr. -
Puccinellia vaginata (Lange) Fern. & Weath. - Sheathed alkali grass
Puccinellia vahliana (Liebm.) Scribn. & Merr. - Vahl's alkali grass
Puccinellia wrightii (Scribn. & Merr.) Tzvelev - Wright's alkali grass
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