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Puccinellia nutkaensis
Also called Alaska Alkaligrass, Pacific Alkaligrass, Shining Alkaligrass
Puccinellia nutkaensis is a species of grass known by the common names Nootka alkaligrass and Alaska alkali grass. It is native to North America from Alaska across northern Canada to Greenland and Nova Scotia, and down to Washington to Oregon to the Central Coast of California.
It is a plant of the coastline in wet areas with rocky, sandy saline soils. A halophyte, the grass is used for revegetation of salt marshes and other habitat in the intertidal zone in Alaska, where it is valuable for its tolerance of heavy inundation in cold saltwater during high tides and storm surges.
Weeping alkaligrass · Saltmarsh alkaligrass · Puccinellia festuciformis · Puccinellia hauptiana · Howell's alkaligrass · Nootka Alkaligrass · Lemmon's alkaligrass · Shining alkaligrass · Macquarie Island Saltgrass · Puccinellia macranthera · Seaside alkaligrass · Nuttall's alkaligrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Puccinellia nutkaensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
