Distichlis Species, Saltgrass

A fantastic little native grass. Warm-season and running rhizomatously like bermudagrass, but finer leaves and much more drought resista...Read Morent, hailing from truly arid deserts.
Sword-like inflorescences, some eight inches tall (in unirrigated desert) above six-inch turf appear in late summer.
With irrigation, like any grass, it adjusts its hieght to as much as a foot higher. (Figure on that being an overwatered height)

Its resistance to salt and alkalinity are unequalled, able to literally grow through salt-encrusted flats.

This plant may be used in the future for no-water (yes, NO WATER) lawns in desert communities like mine, which recieves 8 inches or less of precipitation per year.

Saltgrass is an upright, perennial grass with numerous, long, thin, spiky leaves. When flowering, it has white to tan or light brown/brow...Read Morenish flowers.

Saltgrass is found in lakesides, ditches, swampsides, swamp edges, streamsides, marshes, brackish as well as salty, freshwater and coastal marshes and similar habitats throughout most of the continental United States (including Hawaii) except for Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tenessee, Arkansas and West Virginia. It grows well in zones 3a through 11 and is widespread.

Saltgrass provides food and shelter for wildlife. It grows well in full sun to partial shade.