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Spartina cynosuroides
Also called Big cordgrass
Big cordgrass is a tall, rhizomatic perennial grass native to the US East and Gulf coasts, where it grows in salt marshes, lagoons and bays. It thrives in wet, saline, flooded soils and is best suited to coastal or wetland gardens.
Sporobolus cynosuroides is a species of grass known by the common names big cordgrass and salt reedgrass. It is native to the East Coast and Gulf Coast of the United States, where it grows in coastal habitat such as marshes, lagoons, and bays.
This species is a rhizomatous perennial grass which can grow up to 10 feet tall. The leaves are up to 24 inches long and up to an inch wide. The ligule is hairy. The stem can be ¾ of an inch in diameter at the base. The inflorescence contains up to 40 spikes each up to 3 inches long.
Cumberland sandreed · Giant sandreed · Sporobolus schoenoides · Modest prickle grass · Pricklegrass · Swamp Canegrass · Sporobolus pumilus · Sporobolus michauxianus · Sporobolus spartinae · Sporobolus × townsendii · Cordgrass · Sharp Leaved Grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sporobolus cynosuroides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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