Taxon: Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link

See also subordinate taxa:

• Ammophila arenaria subsp. arenaria (no accessions)
• Ammophila arenaria subsp. arundinacea (no accessions)

Common names:

• European beach grass   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  
• marram   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• marram grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• sea matgrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sand-hjaelme   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Danish
  
• élyme des sables   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• ammophile des sables   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• oyat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• roseau des sables   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Helm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Strandhafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sparto pungente   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• barrón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• grama de las dunas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sandrör   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia [w.]
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey [w.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany [n.]; Netherlands; Poland [n.]
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania [e.]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [w.]
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [n.w.]

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).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. Pp. 255–267 in: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ammophila arenaria.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ammophila arenaria.

Synonyms:

• Arundo arenaria L. [≡ Ammophila arenaria subsp. arenaria]
  

Check other web resources for Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link:

• 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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