Puccinellia maritima

Beach - salt plume ( Puccinellia maritima )

The sandals, beach - salt vapors or beach fescue ( Puccinellia maritima ) is a salt- forming profitable sweet grass. It is eponymous for the plant community often flooded salt marshes, the Andel lawn ( Puccinellietum maritimae ). It is well suited for grazing. Furthermore, the so-called Andelheu is very valuable because of its high mineral content. The beach - salt plume plays an important role in the consolidation of the salt marsh foreland.

Description

The beach - salt plume is a perennial grass which can be up to 60 cm tall and blooms from June to September. It grows erect to decumbent. The grass forms especially in the fall from above ground, streamer -like elongated, rooted shoots. The entire plant is hairless and smooth. The leaf blades are flat or rinnig, sometimes rolled. They are 1 to 3 mm wide and up to 20 inches long. You sometimes have hooded or bootsbugförmig contracted leaf tips. The ligule is short and blunt. The leaf sheaths are closed to the middle.

The einseitswendigen panicles are open. The panicle branches are more or less smooth, stand upright during the flowering and pull yourself together later. The narrow - oblong spikelets are usually 5 - to 9 - flowered and about 5 to 10 mm long. They appear on the back rounded, not form awns and can be purple crowded. The glumes are shorter than the spikelets. The anthers are only about 2 to 2.8 mm long.

Distribution and location

The beach - salt plume has spread to the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America. It grows in periodically flooded, silt- rich salt marshes and preferred clay-rich soils. He is the Kennart the plant community ( association ) of the Andel lawn ( Puccinellietum maritimae Christians. 1927). The plant is a salt - and flood pointer.