Taxon: Uniola paniculata L.

Common names:

• North American sea-oats   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• sea-oats   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• seaside-oats   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• araña   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• arroz de costa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• plattax   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (for beach dune and barrier island stabilization fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  

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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)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.], Florida [coasts], Georgia [s.e.], Louisiana [s.], Maryland [e.], Mississippi [s.], North Carolina [e.], South Carolina, Virginia [s.e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Tamaulipas [coastal dunes]
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas [coastal dunes], Tabasco [coastal dunes], Veracruz [coastal dunes]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba

• also cultivated

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).
• Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37:406.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Yates, H. O. 1966. SouthW. Naturalist 11:373.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Uniola paniculata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Uniola paniculata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Uniola paniculata.

Check other web resources for Uniola paniculata L.:

• 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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