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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Monanthochloinae
  8. Saltgrass

genus

Saltgrass

Distichlis

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Saltgrass native
  • Shore Grass native
  • Palmer's Saltgrass

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Grasses and sedges
Plant type
Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native saltgrass All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Saltgrass Distichlis spicata caterpillars 7 food 12 flowers 1 shelter 1
  • Shore Grass Distichlis littoralis caterpillars 4 food 1

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