The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Distichlis palmeri
Palmer's saltgrass (nipa) is a salt-tolerant perennial grass native to tidal marshes of the northern Gulf of California. It is grown experimentally as a saline-agriculture grain crop, and its key requirement is saline or wet conditions with full sun.
Distichlis palmeri is a species of perennial halophytic grass commonly known as nipa or Palmer saltgrass. It is a saltwater marsh grass endemic to the tidal marshes of the northern Gulf of California in Mexico.
Distichlis palmeri is endemic to the tidal marshes of Baja California and Sonora in the northern Gulf of California. In Baja California, this species occurs from the Colorado River Delta south to the Bahía de los Angeles and Isla Ángel de la Guarda.
Kernels are similar to those of farro in color and size. Kernels of Distichlis palmeri have an indigenous history as a wild harvest grain (Nipa) consumed by the Cocopah. Nipa grain has size, nutritional value and flavor qualities similar to other cropped grains. In the last four decades, Nipa grain production through saline agriculture (agriculture that uses saline resources to farm halophytic cash crops) of D. palmeri has been the subject of domestication studies.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Distichlis palmeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
