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Sporobolus anglicus
Also called English Cordgrass, Cord Grass, Common Cordgrass, Rice Grass
Common cordgrass is a tall, rhizomatous perennial grass of saltmarshes and muddy coasts, originally from a hybrid of two cordgrasses in southern England. It is grown mainly for coastal stabilisation and is aggressive, so it is rarely grown in gardens.
Sporobolus anglicus (common cordgrass) is a hybrid-derived species of cordgrass that originated in southern England in about 1870 and is a neonative species in Britain. It was reclassified as Sporobolus anglicus after a taxonomic revision in 2014, but its previous name, Spartina anglica is still in common usage. It is an allotetraploid species derived from the hybrid Sporobolus × townsendii, which arose when the European native cordgrass Sporobolus maritimus (small cordgrass) hybridized with the introduced American Sporobolus alterniflorus (smooth cordgrass).
Common cordgrass is a herbaceous perennial plant growing 0.4–1.3 metres (1–4 ft) tall. Its foliage consists of round stems that are yellowish green in spring and summer, and turns light brown in autumn and winter. The leaves are 20–60 centimetres (8–24 in) long, and 1.5 centimetres (1⁄2 in) broad at the base, tapering to a point.
Sporobolus schoenoides · Modest prickle grass · Sporobolus pumilus · Cordgrass · Alkali sacaton · Atlantic Cordgrass · Prairie dropseed · Pan dropseed · West Indian Dropseed · West Indian Dropseed · Salt grass · Dropseed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sporobolus anglicus 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.
