Taxon: Spartina patens (Aiton) Muhl.

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:

CAª*, ORª*, WAª*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• marsh grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• marshhay cordgrass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• salt-meadow cordgrass   (Source: Grass US ) – English
  
• esparto   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass US; Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Weed   (fide Global Comp Weeds)
  

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 [s.e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.], Delaware, Florida, Georgia [s.e.], Louisiana [s.], Maryland [e.], Mississippi [s.], North Carolina [e.], South Carolina, Virginia [e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Tamaulipas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Bermuda; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix, St. John

• 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 - Oregon [w.], Washington [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [w.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Central America [sterile material in n.e. Mesoamerica may belong to this species]

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. [mentions].
• 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.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1936. Manual of the grasses of the West Indies.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1971. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16.
• Proctor, G. R. 1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XI.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Randall, R. P. 2002. A global compendium of weeds.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Spartina patens.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Spartina patens.

Check other web resources for Spartina patens (Aiton) Muhl.:

• 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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