Taxon: Ammophila breviligulata Fernald

Common names:

• American beach grass   (Source: Grass VarUSA )
  
• American marram   (Source: F GB Ire )
  
• gourbet   (Source: F Canada )
  
• oyat   (Source: F Canada )
  

Economic importance:

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

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  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.]

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA)
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland. (HPl Mary)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants. (Atlas Ill)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas. (L Minn)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. (F GB Ire)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ammophila breviligulata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ammophila breviligulata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Ammophila breviligulata Fernald:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images 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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