Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
Saltgrass is a tough, rhizomatous grass of salt marshes, alkaline flats, and coastal dunes, one of the few plants that thrives in saline soil. Key for salt-marsh restoration.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet, dry
- Soil pH
- alkaline, neutral
- Bloom
- June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, groundcover, container, rain garden, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, MN, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT, VA, WA, WY