Taxon: Glyceria occidentalis (Piper) J. C. Nelson

Common names:

• western manna grass   (Source: F BritCol ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• 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)
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [s.w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [n. & c.]

References:

• Douglas, G. W. et al., eds. 1994. The vascular plants of British Colombia.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Whipple, I. G. et al. 2007. Molecular insights into the taxonomy of Glyceria (Poaceae: Meliceae) in North America. Amer. J. Bot. 94:551–557. [this study concluded that Glyceria occidentalis is a tetraploid derived by natura hybridization between G. leptostachya and G. fluitans].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Glyceria occidentalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Glyceria occidentalis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Glyceria occidentalis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Panicularia occidentalis Piper (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Glyceria occidentalis (Piper) J. C. Nelson:

• 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
• 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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