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|accepted_name=Puccinellia maritima
|accepted_authority=(Huds.) Pari.
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|common_names=Common saltmarsh grass;Puccinellie maritime
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Puccinellia americana
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|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Puccinellia;Puccinellia maritima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Puccinellia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Puccinellia maritima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 463
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, often stoloniferous, not mat-forming. <b>Culms</b> 20-100 cm, erect to decumbent. <b>Ligules</b> 1-3.5 mm, obtuse to truncate, entire; blades 2-4.4 mm wide, flat to involute. <b>Panicles</b> 3-30 cm, compact to diffuse at maturity, lower branches erect to descending, spikelet-bearing from about midlength; pedicels usually densely scabrous, occasionally with only a few scattered scabrules, often with tumid epidermal cells. <b>Spikelets</b> 5.5-13 mm, with 4-9 florets. <b>Glumes</b> rounded over the back, veins obscure, apices acute to obtuse; lower glumes 2-3.4 mm; upper glumes 3-4.5 mm; calluses with few to many hairs; lemmas 3-5 mm, slightly to markedly coriaceous throughout, sparsely to densely hairy in the lower 1/2, principally along the veins, backs rounded, 5-veined, veins obscure, usually not extending to the margins, sometimes the midvein doing so, apical margins usually smooth, sometimes with a few scattered scabrules, occasionally densely scabrous, apices acute to obtuse, entire; palea veins ciliate proximally, scabrous to short-ciliate distally; anthers 1.5-2.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14-77, usually 56.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;N.H.;N.J.;Greenland;N.B.;N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Mass.;Wash.;N.Y.;Calif.;Del.;Conn.;Pa.;R.I.
|discussion=<p><i>Puccinellia maritima</i> grows in coastal environments in North America and Greenland. It is native to Europe; most or all occurrences in the Flora region are probably the result of human introduction.</p>
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name=Puccinellia maritima
|authority=(Huds.) Pari.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Puccinellia americana
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Maine;N.H.;N.J.;Greenland;N.B.;N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Mass.;Wash.;N.Y.;Calif.;Del.;Conn.;Pa.;R.I.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Puccinellia
|species=Puccinellia maritima
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