Taxon: Spartina alterniflora Loisel.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA(and hybrids)ª*, ORª*, WAª*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• salt-water cordgrass   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• smooth cordgrass   (Source: Grass US ) – English
  
• hu hua mi cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• spartine alterniflore   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

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, Prince Edward Island, Quebec [e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Rhode Island
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.], Delaware, Florida, Georgia [s.e.], Louisiana [s.], Maryland, Mississippi [s.], North Carolina [e.], South Carolina, Virginia [e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Guadeloupe; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname
  Brazil: Brazil - Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Rio Negro; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Washington [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [w.]

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Chase, A. & C. D. Niles, comps. 1962. Index to grass species.
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. [introduced].
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Renvoize, S. A. 1984. The grasses of Bahia.
• Renvoize, S. A. 1988. Hatschbach's Parana grasses.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Spartina alterniflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Spartina alterniflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Spartina alterniflora.

Check other web resources for Spartina alterniflora Loisel.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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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