Taxonomic Details for Spartina alterniflora
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| Common Name: | smooth cordgrass, Atlantic cordgrass, saltmarsh cordgrass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Authority: | Loisel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ITIS TSN: | 41267 (click on the taxonomic serial number to view the ITIS web page) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Habitats: | Salinity Zone: Brackish water, Salinity Zone: Marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GCE Contact: | Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston, Houston, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GCE Data Sets: | PLT-GCEM-2311b (Fall 2023 plant monitoring survey -- biomass calculated from shoot height and flowering status of plants in permanent plots at GCE sampling sites 1-10) PLT-GCEM-2311c (GCE-LTER Altamaha River Plant Community Monitoring Survey in October 2023) PLT-GCEM-2311a (Fall 2023 plant monitoring survey -- shoot height and flowering status of plants in permanent plots at GCE sampling sites 1-10) MSH-GCET-2305 (Characterizing the ecology and soil biogeochemistry of wetland transition zones along the Satilla River Estuary, GA, USA.) PLT-GCEM-2211a (Fall 2022 plant monitoring survey -- shoot height and flowering status of plants in permanent plots at GCE sampling sites 1-10) (view all 103 relevant data sets in the GCE Data Catalog) |
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Spartina alterniflora flower spike
Stand of medium-height Spartina alterniflora. Plants may be > 2 m tall along creekbanks and only 20 cm tall on the marsh platform. Photo Steven Pennings
Spartina alterniflora specimen from UGAMI herbarium. Photo Steven Pennings.
