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Spartina patens
Also called Saltmeadow cordgrass, Highwater Grass, Marsh Hay Cordgrass, Saltmeadow Grass, Salt Hay, Sharp Marshay Cordgrass
Saltmeadow cordgrass is a perennial grass of brackish coastal salt marshes on the Atlantic coast of the Americas, forming dense mats 30 to 60 cm tall. It is grown mainly for erosion control and marsh restoration, and it thrives in wet, salty conditions.
Sporobolus pumilus, the saltmeadow cordgrass, also known as salt hay, is a species of cordgrass native to the Atlantic coast of the Americas, from Newfoundland south along the eastern United States to the Caribbean and north-eastern Mexico. It was reclassified after a taxonomic revision in 2014, but the older name, Spartina patens, may still be found in use. It can be found in marshlands in other areas of the world as an introduced species and often a harmful noxious weed or invasive species.
It is a perennial grass found in the upper areas of brackish coastal salt marshes. It is a slender and wiry plant that grows in thick mats 12 to 24 inches (30 to 60 cm) high, green in spring and summer, and turns light brown in late fall and winter. The stems are wispy and hollow, and the leaves roll inward and appear round.
Sporobolus schoenoides · Modest prickle grass · Cordgrass · Alkali sacaton · Atlantic Cordgrass · Common Cord-grass · Prairie dropseed · Pan dropseed · West Indian Dropseed · West Indian Dropseed · Salt grass · Dropseed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sporobolus pumilus 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.
