Index / Search / Puccinellia nuttalliana
§1 Plant
Puccinellia nuttalliana (Schult.) Hitchc.
vernacular Nuttall's alkaligrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Puccinellia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 112 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–45 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–8.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 0.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,108,000
- Propagation
- seed, container, bulb, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 112 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Arapahoe 08005
- Bent 08011
- Boulder 08013
- Clear Creek 08019
- Denver 08031
- El Paso 08041
- Gunnison 08051
- Jackson 08057
- Jefferson 08059
- Larimer 08069
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Park 08093
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Rio Grande 08105
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- Teller 08119
Kansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Adams 38001
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bottineau 38009
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Eddy 38027
- Emmons 38029
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grand Forks 38035
- Grant 38037
- Griggs 38039
- Hettinger 38041
- Kidder 38043
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Oliver 38065
- Pembina 38067
- Pierce 38069
- Ramsey 38071
- Renville 38075
- Richland 38077
- Rolette 38079
- Sargent 38081
- Sheridan 38083
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Walsh 38099
- Ward 38101
- Wells 38103
- Williams 38105
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PUNU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704691 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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