''Puccinellia distans'' is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in law ...

known by the common names weeping alkaligrass and European alkali grass. It is native to Europe and it is present in most of North America, where it is perhaps an

introduced species An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived the ...

. It grows in moist habitat, usually in areas with

saline soils Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization. Salts occur naturally within soils and water. Salination can be caused by natural processes such as mineral weathering or by t ...

, such as the edges of salted roads.Grass Manual Treatment
It is a perennial herb producing hollow stems up to 40 to 60 centimeters in maximum height. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed ...

is a spreading array of branches, the lower ones reflexed. The branches bear several rough-haired spikelets containing flowers.

Publications

* Dony, C. M. (1979) ''Puccinellia distans'' (reflexed saltmarsh-grass) in Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Naturalist 33 68–69.

References

External links

Jepson Manual TreatmentWashington Burke MuseumGLANSIS Species Fact Sheet
distans Halophytes Grasses of Europe {{Pooideae-stub