Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various grasses that grow in salt marshes and alkaline areas, especially Distichlis spicata, native to the Americas.
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- noun Distichlis spicata, a
coastal American grass .
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Examples
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Characteristically, the basin floors have strongly saline and very alkaline soils that support black greasewood, inland saltgrass, shadscale, and bud sagebrush.
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Maritime forests of live oak, red cedar, slash pine, and cabbage palmetto grow on parts of the sea islands, and various species of cordgrass, saltgrass, and rushes are dominant in the marshes.
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Vegetation tolerant of brackish or saline water and extensive organic deposits include saltmarsh cordgrass, marshhay cordgrass, black needlerush, and coastal saltgrass.
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Kuchler potential natural vegetation is a mix of northeastern oak-pine forest (dominants: pitch pine, scarlet oak, and black oak), Appalachian oak forest (dominants: white oak and northern red oak), and northern cordgrass prairie (dominants: saltgrass and salt marsh cordgrass); the mosaic is distinct from that of Ecoregions 59 and 63.
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Where salt concentrations are very high, even these shrubs are unable to grow; they are replaced by plant communities dominated by greasewood or saltgrass.
Nevada-Utah Mountains Semidesert - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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Vegetation in the salt marshes is made up primarily of black needlerush, smooth cordgrass and saltgrass.
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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Greasewood, inland saltgrass, and seepweed grow in more alkaline soil, and Wyoming big sagebrush, basin big sagebrush, and associated grasses dominate better drained, less alkaline soils.
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Vegetation is mostly absent although scattered salt-tolerant plants, such as pickleweed, iodinebush, black greasewood, and inland saltgrass, occur.
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Vegetation is dominated by black greasewood, spiny hopsage, bud sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, inland saltgrass, alkali sacaton, and basin wildrye.
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Salt tolerant shrubs, including black greasewood, fourwing saltbush, inland saltgrass, and shadscale, occur on alkaline outcrops.
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