See other conspecific taxa:

• Puccinellia distans subsp. borealis (0 accessions)
• Puccinellia distans subsp. distans (0 accessions)
• Puccinellia distans subsp. limosa (0 accessions)
• Puccinellia distans subsp. sevangensis (0 accessions)

Common names:

• European alkali grass  (Source: Intermt F) - English
• reflexed-salt grass  (Source: NZeal J Bot) - English
• slender alkali grass  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• weeping alkali grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• European alkali grass  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• puccinellie à fleurs distantes   (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• gemeiner Salzschwaden  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• grått saltgräs  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage
• Environmental:
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (of unknown importance in the USA)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Pakistan

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Astrakhan, Saratov, Volgograd] Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain


Cultivated

Northern America

• United States


Naturalized

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• Canada, United States

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
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