Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium


  Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl. image
Photographer: from USDA Plants website           
Family Poaceae
Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl.
European alkali grass, weeping alkali grass
Puccinellia: for Professor Benedetto Puccinelli, Italian botanist
distans: separated, apart, widely-spaced, in reference to the long, exserted stamens, which are apart from each other
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Status: Introduced - naturalized
Plant: perennial grass
Habitat: waste areas, railroads
(Glossary)

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Drawing by Agnes Chase from Norman C. Fassett's Grasses of Wisconsin
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