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. Like other salt-tolerant grasses, the seed has documented use as a ground-flour grain.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1.1–1.1 ft
- Spacing
- 1–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet, dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- border, groundcover, container, rain garden, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, SC, SD, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY