Taxon: Ammophila breviligulata Fernald

Common names:

• American beach grass   (Source: Grass VarUSA ) – English
  
• American marram   (Source: F GB Ire ) – English
  
• gourbet   (Source: F Canada ) – French
  
• oyat   (Source: F Canada ) – French
  
• amerikanskt sandrör   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Dict Gard; Grass VarUSA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario [s.], Prince Edward Island, Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana [n.w.], Maine [s.], Massachusetts [e.], Michigan, New Hampshire [s.e.], New Jersey, New York, Ohio [n.], Pennsylvania [n.w. & s.e.], Rhode Island, Vermont [n.w.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.e.], Minnesota [n.e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Maryland [e.], North Carolina [e.], Virginia [e.]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America [e.]

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ammophila breviligulata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ammophila breviligulata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ammophila breviligulata.

Check other web resources for Ammophila breviligulata Fernald:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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